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 she 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 when his chamber voted last month on a new map that would create two more right-leaning congressional districts in the state.

The president said he would partner with former Indiana congressman David McIntosh, 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 work tirelessly together to eliminate Indiana Senate Majority Leader Rod Bray, a total RINO who 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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“We’re after you, Bray, like no one’s ever been after you before!”

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

“President Trump and I agree,” he wrote to X. “Rod Bray is falling.”

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

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State Senator Rodric Bray, a Republican from Indiana, center, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump has launched redistricting efforts across the country ahead of this year’s midterms, and Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have drawn new maps as part of the president’s efforts.

In December, the Indiana Senate voted 31-19 against the new congressional map, with 21 Republicans voting against the measure along with 10 Democrats. Had it been approved, districts with two Democratic representatives would have been eliminated.

The redistricting bill passed the Indiana House by a score of 57-41; A dozen GOP lawmakers voted against the measure, but Republican leaders in the Senate had resisted Trump’s efforts to draw new congressional maps.

Bray had repeatedly said there wasn’t enough support in the legislature to move forward on redistricting, but Trump continually pressured Bray and others leading up to the vote, saying they “need to be encouraged to make the right decision.”

In a social media post on the eve of the state Senate vote, Trump criticized Bray, promising to do everything in his power to oust Bray and Republicans who voted against the redistricting bill in the GOP primary.

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President Donald Trump arrives at the dedication ceremony for a portion of Southern Boulevard where the Town of Palm Beach Council recently voted to rename President Donald J. Trump Boulevard at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 16, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

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

Vance also took aim at Bray on Friday after the Virginia State Senate green-lighted a constitutional amendment that would allow the Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw the state’s U.S. House maps ahead of midterm elections.

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“I would like to thank @bray_rodric for not even trying to fight back against this extraordinary abuse of power by the Democrats,” he wrote of X. “Now the votes of Indiana Republicans will matter much less than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We told you this would happen, and you did nothing.”

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