Trump targets Indiana Senate leader Rod Bray over redistricting resistance

President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to “eliminate” the Republican leader of the Indiana Senate after he resisted a new congressional map championed by the president.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that Indiana Senate Majority Leader Rod Bray “betrayed” the Republican Party after his chamber voted against a new map last month that would have created two additional right-wing congressional districts in the state.

The president said he would team up with David McIntosh, a former Indiana congressman who helped found two political groups, the Federalist Society and the Club for Growth, to target Bray.

“I was with David McIntosh of the Club for Growth, and we agreed that we would both work tirelessly together to take down Indiana Senate Majority Leader Rod Bray, a total RINO, who has betrayed the Republican Party, the President of the United States and everyone who wants to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote in the post.

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State Senator Rodric Bray speaks to the media at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on December 8, 2025. (Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He added: “We’re after you Bray like no one has ever gone after you before!”

McIntosh, a longtime conservative figure, said he agreed with Trump’s game plan.

“President Trump and I are aligned,” he wrote on X. “Rod Bray is going down.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Bray’s office for comment.

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State Senator Rodric Bray, center, speaks at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on December 8, 2025. (Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump launched redistricting efforts across the country ahead of this year’s midterm elections, and Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio drew new maps as part of the president’s efforts.

In December, the Indiana Senate voted 31-19 against a new congressional map, with 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats in voting against the measure. If approved, the districts of two Democratic representatives would have been eliminated.

The redistricting bill passed the Indiana House of Representatives 57-41, with a dozen Republican lawmakers voting against the measure, but Republican leaders in the Senate resisted Trump’s efforts to draw new congressional maps.

Bray had repeatedly said there was not enough support in the House to move forward with redistricting, but Trump continually pressured Bray and others on the fence before the vote, saying they “need encouragement to make the right decision.”

In a social media post on the eve of the state Senate vote, Trump blasted Bray, vowing that he would do everything in his power to oust Bray and the Republicans who voted against the redistricting bill in their Republican primaries.

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The president had called state lawmakers about the bill, and Vice President JD Vance visited the state twice last fall to discuss redistricting.

After the Virginia state Senate gave the green light Friday to a constitutional amendment that would allow the Democratic-controlled Legislature to redraw the map of the U.S. House of Representatives before the midterm elections, Vance also took aim at Bray.

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“I would like to thank @bray_rodric for not even trying to fight this extraordinary abuse of power by the Democrats,” he wrote on

Paul Steinhauser and Jasmine Baehr of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.