A group of Republicans in Indiana delivered a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump on Thursday by rejecting his months-long push for the state to redraw its congressional map.
Trump, 79, has been frantically urging the deep red state to deliver as he tries to keep his party in power by helping Republicans keep their House majority in next year’s midterms.
Republicans in the state Senate controlled 40 of the 50 seats in the chamber, but the passage of the maps was not assured as GOP senators remained deeply divided on the issue despite Trump calling out GOP lawmakers by name.
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