Posted on 12/12/2025 7:13:47 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R ) on Thursday said he would help President Trump primary Republican state lawmakers who voted against a redistricting measure backed by the leader.
“I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump. Ultimately, decisions like this carry political consequences,” Braun wrote in a post on the social platform X.
‘I will be working with the President to challenge these people who do not represent the best interests of Hoosiers,” he added.
In a 19-31 vote, the Indiana Senate rejected the redistricting bid, with more Republicans voting against the new map than for it.
“We’ll be launching primary challenges against every last traitor who voted no, effective immediately! Pack your bags, your time is up!” Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz wrote on the social platform X, responding to the vote.
Republicans lawmakers in the Hoosier State who opposed the effort have defended their decision to buck Trump.
“Make no mistake, I, like many of those who will join me in voting no today, are constitutional fiscal and religious conservatives. What that means to me is that I believe in conserving the values, the culture and the institutions that created American exceptionalism,” said Indiana state Sen. Spencer Deery (R), who voted against the map.
“My point is that my opposition to mid-cycle gerrymandering is not in contrast with my conservative principles,” he said. “My opposition is driven by them.”
Trump has threatened to primary all GOP lawmakers that defied his mid-decade redistricting push in the state.
“They found some Republican ‘SUCKERS,’ and they couldn’t be happier that they did! Guys like Failed Senate Candidate Mitch Daniels, who I opposed in his Race against Senator Jim Banks, and Cam Savage, whoever that is, are fighting against the Republican Party, all the way,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post ahead of Thursday’s vote.
He specifically slammed Indiana State Senate Leader Rod Bray (R ).
“Bray and his friends are the favorite Republicans of [House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries [D-N.Y.], Crazy [Rep.] Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.], and Cryin’ Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.]. 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,” he wrote.
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[Make no mistake, I, like many of those who will join me in voting no today, are constitutional fiscal and religious conservatives]
Voting with the anti-God party - JUDAS PENCE Conservatives.
Vote them out. Traitors to the party and the country.
This is a recent stat. Which kind of surprised me too.
It was a guy on YouTube who calls himself Reventure Consulting. He mostly tries to sell you his AP. However, I started subscribing to him a few years ago. He showed a graph of inbound and outbound migration in USA cities that Bank Of America had published.
I am a lumber broker. My company subscribes to a publication called Random Lengths that prints commodity lumber pricing.
Monthly they put out a letter with the Housing Permits by Metro Area. This way you can see what parts of our country are growing or contracting. Florida has been booming for ten years. It really picked up during covid. As did all the southern RED markets.
Each metro area boomed to some extent.
As of August building Permits they were as follows YTD 2024 vs 2025:
Ft Myers (-3) %
Jacksonville (-10)
Lakeland/Winterhaven (-16)
Tampa (-3)
Miami +23
Orlando +21
So, from the numbers above Miami and Orlando are still growing with a pretty large percentage increase over the previous year. However, what has changed across Florida is that it is no longer a Cheap place to retire to from up north. Unless that up north is NYC.
Another thing is that Orlando is now in the top ten in the USA for housing starts and permits with 20K permits so far in 2025. Dallas/Ft Worth and Houston are still number one and two(46K & 44K). Phoenix is still number three(25K). Atlanta, NYC, LA & the valley are 4, 5 & 6. I think Orlando is the 7th or 8th largest VOLUME of houses being built in the country.
Keep in mind that FL,TX, AZ & CA have more starts than most of the rest of the country combined. Especially up here in the NE where they never build big subdivisions. Or a big apartment complex is 4-6 buildings.
I watch the PBD Podcast all the time. I think they do it from somewhere around West Palm Beach. They are always talking about what is going down in South Florida.
How all the big money people are moving there.
How they expect even more to leave NYC to come south.
I think the issue now with Florida is that it is no longer a inexpensive place to retire in the sun.
Unless you are going to move to Apalachacola(sp?) or someplace north of Tampa.
They are all the same party. Time to stop pretending.
"Fluff like this"? I find naivety "annoying".
Do YOU know their opinions and votes on any RTKBA/2A issues? Abortion? Taxes? The role and size of government?
For starters one can pose all they want and pretend to be a conservative. However, the rubber meets the road on votes of consequence. THIS was an important vote.
Indiana's seven red districts were cumulatively +700K red in 2024 congressional elections. Indiana's two blue districts were cumulately just +134K blue.
The Gary district, just +33 blue, could have easily been redistricted red without risk. Mathematically, I maintain both could have.
The fate of our country hangs in the balance with the 2026 election. This redistricting vote was important. The Republican State Senators failed in their vote.
They are RINO's.
Time to run MAGA candidates in EVERY party primary.
Hence my claim about Indiana's RINO's and hence my statement that Republican RINO's need to be labeled and primaried to a maximum effort.
What it means is that he is giving Marxist Democrats more of a chance of taking over the House as well has helping RINOs undermine Trump.
This has Mike Pence fingerprints all over it.
Thanks for the in-depth information.
Miami-Dade has been the stand-out county in the entire nation with the greatest disparity between average income and housing affordability for quite some time, and it’s only gotten worse.
I was up in the Panhandle a year or so ago for a wedding (didn’t make to Apalachicola,) and the money pouring in to Destin is amazing.
Huh? If Indiana is such a red state that Republicans control 40 of the 50 Senate seats, it shouldn't be a problem replacing those that voted for this with MAGA Republicans.
At the end of the day, without non-MAGA Republicans, there’d be substantial Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress.
Ideological purity is satisfying emotionally but suicide politically.
Too little , too late.
2026 is lost.
It's December 12, 2025.
That's 326 days that you plan to surrender.
If I was that kind of quitter, I would log out.
There was only two congressional district in Indiana where the winner didn't win with more than 64% of the vote. And, it was a Democrat district that was the only won where the winner won with less than 54% of the vote.
In no election should smart redistricting result in less than eight Republican seats in Indiana.
Anyone replacing them will have similar views but won't be in bed with Bush/Pence wing of the party.
Another YouTuber named Peter Santanello did a episode of his podcast about the Red Neck Riviera sometime in the last year. He goes all over the world doing videos with one of the “locals”.
In that one he visited those small former fishing villages east of Mexico beach. He showed how you could still buy a gulf front house there for under a million.
That the people living there were all “salt of the earth” types. A real Republican stronghold. I made me want to move there.
FYI, Peter grew up in Burlington, VT. He has been in over 80 countries making his podcast videos. He too now lives in Florida. However, he did a video about how much his hometown of Burlington has changed from when he grew up there.
It was really sad what the Bernie Sanders liberals have down to VT.
MAGA can disagree on anything and everything about how to achieve MAGA, but not the goal of MAGA.
I don’t put my faith in parties or pols.
I want people with like minded principles and I don’t give a rat’s patootie about the letter after the name.
Donald Dems are why Deep State has to steal elections.
Electing them to office will help save our republic.
I was in Vermont last summer for the first time in years. We attended an opera festival in Brattleboro, a truly depressing town, down on its heels. While we didn’t see Burlington, we did see lots of beautiful scenery and some very quaint little villages.
Funny enough, one of my wife’s Miami friends just relocated to a beautiful mountainside property in an exclusive community: over 10,000 sq. ft. in a house built for the novelist John Irving: it even had a wrestling room! (Irving was a competitive wrestler.)
So we just need 21 MAGA candidates.
I'm sure we can find 21 retired folks in Indiana to run for those seats in Indiana Senate.
RINO’s are much more dangerous than democrats—
because RINO’s blur the distinction between conservatism and liberalism,
making liberalism MUCH MORE ACCEPTABLE!
So about half of them ARE up for re-election before 2028. Make examples out of that half and we can take care of the rest later.
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