Republicans in the Indiana state Senate on Thursday defied President Donald Trump's orders to gerrymander their congressional map in order to help rig the 2026 midterms for the GOP, a major rebuke of their party's leader.

The new congressional map—which would have rigged the districts so that Republicans would hold all nine of the state's U.S. House seats—failed, with 31 lawmakers voting against it and 19 voting in the affirmative. That means a majority of the Republicans in the state Senate voted against it, a massive F-U to Trump.

They did so despite a massive pressure campaign from Trump and other Republicans leaders, including Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Trump's douchebag son Donald Trump Jr.—who vowed to embark on a retributive campaign to oust any lawma

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