Republicans Reject Trump’s Election Map Push

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

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0:00.0	Breaking news out front. Trump rejected by his own party. Indiana Republicans say no to Trump's major redistricting push. This hour, finger pointing and name calling its open warfare. All this happening in the past few minutes. And more breaking news. A major development tonight, the Maryland man whom Trump deported to El Salvador,
0:22.1	now free tonight, a judge slamming the Trump administration for unlawfully holding him.
0:28.3	His attorney is our guest, and Jeffrey Epstein called her his great defender.
0:33.1	She communicated with Epstein more than almost anyone else in the trove of documents released by the
0:38.1	White House. So who is she? Who is Kathy Rumler? And why was she so close to Epstein? Let's go out
0:43.4	front. And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news rejected
0:50.2	Republican shutting Trump down and no uncertain terms on this one, they are refusing
0:55.7	his demands to redraw Indiana's congressional map.
1:00.0	Now, this is something that no one would have expected even a few months ago, right,
1:03.9	when all this started with California and Texas and Trump could just plow his way through
1:07.8	red states.
1:08.5	But tonight, in a tense vote, more Republicans voted
1:12.3	against Trump's wishes than for them. And that measure failed, and it failed in a big way.
1:18.2	The vote 19 to 31. This is a major development, just to state the obvious, because Trump has been
1:24.1	pushing redistricting in states across the country for months.
1:32.5	And in Indiana specifically, Trump pushed the redistricting plan there on social media in nearly a dozen tweets over the past few weeks and even just hours before the vote.
1:37.7	When they thought it would be close but still thought they could win,
1:41.2	Trump pulled any kind of a fig leaf away, such that there ever even is one on
1:44.7	this, but resorted to blatant threats, saying the Republican Senate leader Rod Bray and his
1:50.0	friends won't be in politics for long, and I will do everything within my power to make sure
1:55.3	that they will not hurt the Republican Party and our country again. Okay, well, you come out with
2:00.7	that kind of a threat.
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