The Indiana Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted down a bill to redraw the state's congressional districts to favor Republicans, in a major blow to President Donald Trump .

The bill failed in a 19-31 vote, with most Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure that Trump had aggressively lobbied for. The GOP has a 40-vote majority in the 50-member Senate.

Republicans were expected to gain two additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives if the redistricting bill had been approved by the Senate. The state's House of Representatives voted in favor of the bill last Friday.

Trump had threatened the state's Republican lawmakers with primary challenges if they did not support the bill.

His failure to convince them is a rare loss in his effort to redraw congressional ma

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