Indiana’s Republican-led Senate decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump and delivering a stark setback to the White House ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

In the hallways of the Statehouse, a crowd of a couple dozen people cheered as the vote count appeared on a television screen outside the Senate chamber.

“I'm elated,” said Karen Tallian, a former state senator. “We've often heard this old saying that democracy is not a spectator sport. And, man, today they showed it.”

The vote was overwhelmingly against the proposed redistricting, with more Republicans opposing than supporting the measure — a sign of the limits of Trump’s influence even in one of the country’s most conservative states.

Sen. Sue Glick was one of the Republicans who voted against the new map and said she isn’t worried about retaliation from the president. “We shouldn't have to look over our shoulder at the federal government and say we didn’t get this because somebody in Washington was upset with us,” she said.

Trump has been urging Republicans nationwide to redraw their congressional maps in an unusual campaign to help the party maintain its thin majority in the U.S. House. Texas, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina went along, but Indiana did not — despite cajoling and insults from the president and the possibility of primary challenges.

(AP video by Obed Lamy)