https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/trump-indiana-redistricting-republicans-rodric-bray-00686257President Donald Trump threatened electoral consequences for Indiana Republicans who defy his demand that the state redraw its congressional map to secure more seats for the GOP — singling out a state senator who could help block the effort on Thursday.Trump raged at Indiana Senate Republican leader Rodric Bray in a social media post late Wednesday, saying he would back primary opponents for those who stand in the way of an effort to preserve the GOP House majority in the midterms.“Anybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring,” Trump wrote. “Rod Bray and his friends won’t be in Politics for long, and I will do everything within my power to make sure that they will not hurt the Republican Party, and our Country, again.”His threat reflects the stakes for his presidency if the Democrats retake the House, which would allow them to thwart his agenda and launch investigations of his administration. Trump has sought to prevent that by pushing states with GOP governors and Republican-controlled legislatures to redraw their congressional districts.Republicans stand to gain two more seats in Indiana, giving them all nine in the state, under the new proposed map.Indiana Republicans have faced intense pressure to redraw their congressional districts for months. Vice President JD Vance has traveled to the state to lobby legislators in person, and House Speaker Mike Johnson made calls to individual senators. Trump himself has spoken to Republican state senators on multiple occasions — both on the phone and in person at the White House.
A pair of conservative, Trump-aligned PACs have driven nearly half a million dollars in ad buys to shape public opinion on redistricting in the state. Trump campaign staffers, including his former campaign manager Chris LaCivita, have helped launch a dark-money group to advocate for redistricting in Indiana.On Friday, Turning Point Action said it would partner with other conservative PACs to fund primary challenges against Indiana Republicans who vote against the new map.A handful of Indiana legislators have also been subject to bomb threats and “swattings,” false calls of danger to law enforcement that elicit an aggressive response designed to intimidate a target.Despite the pressure, Bray and a significant chunk of the Republican caucus in the Indiana Senate have resisted calls to redraw the maps — setting up a crucial vote on Thursday that could be the death knell for mid-decade redistricting in the state if Bray and his allies hold firm.In his lengthy social media post, Trump appeared to acknowledge the uphill battle his preferred map faces ahead of the vote.“One of my favorite States, Indiana, will be the only State in the Union to turn the Republican Party down!” he wrote.A failure to pass a new map in Indiana would shrink the potential advantage Trump might gain from triggering a mid-decade redistricting tit-for-tat this summer when he urged Texas to draw a new map that created five new GOP-leaning House seats. GOP-controlled legislators in Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have subsequently drawn new maps favoring Republicans.But those efforts have been countered by a new congressional map in California, while other Democratic states like Virginia and Maryland continue to weigh gerrymanders of their own.
>>1464306Don't forget all the death treats too, so trump's classic stochastic terrorism too.
The last thing Trump should be doing is politics. Go back to your gated tower, Trump.
>>1464306Not much of a threat, Trump backed candidates have been losing recently while the ones he was hands-off on won (Tennessee for example.) Seems like Trumps golden touch doesn't work as well during "Trumps Recession."Guess he should've been working on fulfilling his campaign promises of lowering prices and rebuilding the economy instead lf giving tax-payer money to Argentina and Israel.
>>1464456The new candidates aren't directly connected to Trump. They're being farmed through Turning Point, Heritage.org, and The Federalist Society.
>>1464307>A pair of conservative, Trump-aligned PACs have driven nearly half a million dollars in ad buys to shape public opinion >>1464459Something similar happened in Texas when Ken Paxton was being impeached for bribery, obstruction, and abuse of trust by the legeislature. A bunch of ultra conservative MAGA thinktanks no one had heard of came out of the woods and primaried the republicans who dared to vote for impeaching Paxton. Unfortunately it worked, and the republicans with principles are gone now, leaving only MAGA shills loyal to Paxton, who is now running for US Senate.My point is that those thinktanks weren't connected to Trump, but they didn't start finding primary opponents until Trump snapped his fingers and threw his support behind Paxton.
>>1464459Oh, that's worse.
>The 9-0 map was designed to eliminate all traces of Democratic representation at the congressional level in the state, giving Republicans 100 percent of seats in a state where Trump won 58 percent of the vote in 2024. Under the proposal, Trump would have carried every one of the new districts by at least 12 points. Indiana’s current map received an A from the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. The new one got an F.>To oust Democratic Rep. André Carson, the city of Indianapolis, which he largely represents, would be split four ways, creating districts that border three different states in the process. Carson’s new district would have shifted from favoring Kamala Harris by 40 points to Trump by nearly 20 points, one of the most outlandish examples of gerrymandering anywhere in the country. It would go from a compact urban district that is roughly 50 percent non-white to a sprawling rural district that is 80 percent white, dramatically diluting the power of minority voters in Indianapolis.>“Splicing our state’s largest city—and its biggest economic driver—into four parts is ridiculous,” Carson said in a statement. “It’s clear these orders are coming from Washington, and they clearly don’t know the first thing about our community.” (Republicans confirmed the map was drawn by a DC-based group, the National Republican Redistricting Trust, that has drawn pro-Republican gerrymanderers in other states, including Texas, this year.)Cheers on Indiana for rejecting globalist shills
>>1464306LOL, it was just voted down.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indiana-republicans-vote-against-trump-redistricting_n_693b3743e4b053d6e8f192f2#commentsTrump's going to ramp up the stochastic terrorism.now.
>>1464494Riddle me thisIf Donald looks like a lame duck and quacks like a lame duck... is he probably a lame duck?
>>1464495He's not because he has the Republican supreme court to rubber stamp all his power grabs to cut out congress and worse, there's still the looming coup d'etat he's going to stage in 2028.
>>1464500I'm minimally concerned at best.I'm borrowing heavily from Erica Chenoweth here, but it takes around 1% of the population participating in a mass movement to dislodge a government peacefully. Governments rest on the political support of power groups, whether the working class, small business owners, corporate types, the intelligentsia, etc. Polling is unambiguously showing erosion in Donald's support. Small businesses are screwed by tariffs and less access to labor, corporations don't want to deal with Chinese-style state capitalism, the intelligentsia have always hated Donald, and the working class might hate immigration, but they hate high grocery/healthcare prices more. While Donald's topline polling numbers are stable, we're seeing his supporters admitting that his policies are hurting there finances.Maga morons will wave this away as academic nonsense, but look at Republican actions. Donald's demands to end the filibuster went nowhere. This is a thread about a ruby red legislature telling him to fuck off. Marjorie fucking Taylor Greene, the qanon queen, has said Donald has lost his mandate of heaven. Hell, we're to the point that Rick Scott telling Donald to fuck off about drilling off the Florida coast (unthinkable during his first term) barely makes waves. These are all the actions of people who don't see his primary threats as having teeth.While I wish only misfortune on the conservatives on the court, only 2-4 of them are die-hard fascists. The court during Donald's first term declined to steal the election for him, because they're politicians in all-but name: they're happy to let the president trash federal agencies and torture brown people, but they're not going to soil their legacy by blatantly turning the nation into a dictatorship. For one thing, the dictators who are successful (Orban, Erdogan, Bukele) grab power while they are popular. Donald's got tentative support from 10% of the country and die-hard support from 30%: not enough.
>>1464508>While I wish only misfortune on the conservatives on the court, only 2-4 of them are die-hard fascists.It's funny to think that a significant portion of Americans think the same way you do.
The Massacre is already happening: and it's not even 2026.You're the gift that keeps on giving, Donnie: to the Democrats. Voters in Miami just have, to Eileen Higgins.
>>1464544>>1464544While John Roberts is happy to enable fascists, I don't think die-hard fascist is the best label for him. He's more of a neo-con aka, fascist with democratic characteristics
>>1464574Any judge who declared that trump is a king who's above the law is a fascist, full stop.>>1464508I'm not as optomistic given the sheer amount of bullshit republicans are willing pull to pull to stay in power. Plus a bigger problem is ICE is now the largest paramilitary in the world and they pledge an oath to trump, not the constitution. On top of that, the US military has no problem following illegal orders given the recent string of war crime in the gulf of Mexico. Finally, even if you have 1% of the American people rise up, given the size of the country and far right's conservatives following the genocide handbook of dehumanizing their opponents, you'll just see mass killings where the murderers will be hailed as heroes defending trump's america, on top of the far right wing controlling the media And courts. The only reason you're seeing people break from trump is they're personally hurting. But make no mistake, if trump made the economy a success and went full fascist, the average American wouldn't care and would actually support the death of democracy since they only care about their own self interest. Maybe by an act of the divine things were work out, but the deck is still incredibly stacked in trump's favor becaue of how republicans have worked on rigging the game for the past 40 years.
>>1464581>Any judge who declared that trump is a king who's above the law is a fascist, full stop.>full stopYou mean "full retard", right?
>>1464593>WhyNotBoth?.jpgAlso, LOL at the one republican shill's thread to distract from all the bad news against trump and republicans.
>>1464574>fascist with democratic characteristics What the fuck are you even saying right nowEvery fascist considers liberalism a capitalist trick and hates democracy. You're making shit up just to gossip.
>>1464596So, full retard it is, yet again.You sit here all day an post retarded semi-English troll posts. Why are you here?
>>1464623Why are you upset
>>1464624>You sit here all day an post retarded semi-English troll posts.
>>1464581The 1% number isn't pulled out of a hat: it's based on historical precedence. It's not like the 1986 revolution in the Philippines, the 2003 revolution in Georgia, or the 2000 revolution in Serbia didn't face military forces willing to break the law or toadies who were willing to worship the dictator for cynical gain. The problem is, when 1.5-3% of the population stops cooperating, things break down, and a government can't function.Additionally, America lacks many of the characteristics of democracies that collapse (see https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/19/american-democracy-resilience-00548910?utm_content=topic/news&utm_source=flipboard)>Trump’s support may dismay his opponents, but it’s far lower than he needs to kill off democracy. In presidential systems of at least middling strength, populists who defeated democracy since 1980 had approval ratings of 80 percent or more — nearly twice Trump’s approval rating, which has been stuck in the 40s both in his first term and so far in his second.>Przeworski suggested that while lower-income societies can erupt in all-or-nothing struggle over scarce resources, wealthy societies develop an existential fear of losing the rule of law, dreading that fate as worse than any particular electoral loss. >(Scotus) remains a Federalist Society Court, not a Trumpist Court. In his first term, Trump had the worst record at the Supreme Court in the modern era. Federalist Society judges threw out his ridiculous challenges to the 2020 election again and again.
>>1464597Fascists also believe in a supreme executive, in-group superiority, and militarized society. Roberts opposes none of those so long as the executive has a fig leaf of democratic mandate. Granted, I began this thread by specifying he's not a raging fascist, just a run of the mill neocon, but it's hardly original to point out the fascist undertones of neoconservatives' "might + democracy makes right" ideology.Funny how I'm getting criticized for only calling him a democratic fascist and for calling him a fascist at all. Can't win.
>Party of states' rights here
>>1464629As I said before, the size of the country is going to play a factor, both how many people and the actual size, plus do any of those countries have a huge uncountable paramilitary death squad like ICE running around.Also the first term didn't see the court completely packed like it was now to the point they republicans on the court declared he was above the law. Do not expect the Republican supreme court to come running to the rescue if trump stages another coup.
>>1464623Why are you so butthurt over the fact people should ignore your bait threads?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indiana-trump-threat-federal-funds-redistrict_n_693c3815e4b0898f030090ae?>Indiana Lt. Gov: Trump Threatened To Withhold Funding If We Didn’t RedistrictHoly shit, more proof trump is a crime boss.
>>1464707Is this a surprise? Every aspect of the US government under Trump's direct control acts more like a criminal organization than a governmental one. He loves using extortion as a tactic and so do his underlings; hell sometimes they even skim off the top, like those ICE agents who got caught stealing a cash box after they arrested a street vendor.
https://www.rawstory.com/indiana-redistricting-2674396120/Fall out from trump's attempt to steal the 2026 election in Indiana continues as his point man for the theft resigns from her leadership post.
