It is very clear that next year's midterms will decide whether President Donald Trump's final two years in office will be productive or bogged down by impeachment efforts and other left-wing treachery.
Trump has been urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their congressional lines to help the GOP hold on to its thin majority.
Although Texas, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina went along, Indiana did not. In fact, the vote wasn't even close with more Republicans voting against the redistricting measure than for it.
Micah Clark is Executive Director of the American Family Association of Indiana.
"I was surprised they only got 19 votes. There were 31 votes against it, ten of which were Democrats. We had 21 Republicans vote no, 19-vote yes. It was just bad. I thought we were going to fall a couple of votes short. I didn't think we'd fall that short."
Clark says in politics nice guys finish last.
"The fact that Indiana decided to be quote unquote ‘fair and play nice’ is not going to stop any blue state from eliminating any Republican districts at all just because we were the nice guys who rose above this and didn't get partisan. This is a very partisan, very political battle, and it's not about fairness or niceness. It's about public policy ideas, and Indiana decided not to play a part in that."
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels praised senators for “courageous principled leadership" in rejecting the new map, The Associated Press reported.
A Republican who has vocally criticized Trump, Daniels said the outcome was “a major black eye for him and all the Washington groups that piled in, spent money, blustered and threatened.” He added that “this thing rubbed our state the wrong way and Republicans in our state very wrong from the jump.”
