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Indianapolis —
The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump’s months-long campaign to pressure the Republican supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will.
The 31-19 vote saw 21 Republicans join 10 Democrats in voting down the proposed map that would have positioned the GOP, which currently holds seven of Indiana’s nine US House seats, for a sweep of all nine seats in next year’s midterm elections.
The vote comes with significant ramifications for the 2026 midterm elections as roughly a dozen states aim to redraw their US House maps beforehand. Not gaining two seats limits the gains Republicans are seeking to make in the redistricting arms race that Trump launched.
Indiana’s rejection also revealed the limits of Trump’s political might. The Trump administration dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Indiana for two visits and invited state lawmakers to the White House as part of their lobbying effort. Trump, Vance, and Republican allies threatened to run primary challengers against senators who didn’t approve a new map.
Instead, a majority of Indiana’s Senate Republican caucus voted no.
Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said in a statement following the vote, “Indiana Senate Republicans want to see a Republican majority in congress at the midterms. The issue before us today was how to get there, and many of my caucus members don’t think redrawing our Congressional map mid-cycle is a guaranteed way for Indiana – or our country – to achieve that outcome.”
Republican Sen. Greg Goode criticized “over-the-top pressure from inside the Statehouse and outside,” as well as “threats of violence, acts of violence.” Goode was one of several lawmakers who faced swatting attempts last month hours after Trump posted on social media calling him a “RINO,” or “Republican in name only.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/indiana-senate-republicans-redistricting-trump
Indianapolis —
The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump’s months-long campaign to pressure the Republican supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will.
The 31-19 vote saw 21 Republicans join 10 Democrats in voting down the proposed map that would have positioned the GOP, which currently holds seven of Indiana’s nine US House seats, for a sweep of all nine seats in next year’s midterm elections.
The vote comes with significant ramifications for the 2026 midterm elections as roughly a dozen states aim to redraw their US House maps beforehand. Not gaining two seats limits the gains Republicans are seeking to make in the redistricting arms race that Trump launched.
Indiana’s rejection also revealed the limits of Trump’s political might. The Trump administration dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Indiana for two visits and invited state lawmakers to the White House as part of their lobbying effort. Trump, Vance, and Republican allies threatened to run primary challengers against senators who didn’t approve a new map.
Instead, a majority of Indiana’s Senate Republican caucus voted no.
Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said in a statement following the vote, “Indiana Senate Republicans want to see a Republican majority in congress at the midterms. The issue before us today was how to get there, and many of my caucus members don’t think redrawing our Congressional map mid-cycle is a guaranteed way for Indiana – or our country – to achieve that outcome.”
Republican Sen. Greg Goode criticized “over-the-top pressure from inside the Statehouse and outside,” as well as “threats of violence, acts of violence.” Goode was one of several lawmakers who faced swatting attempts last month hours after Trump posted on social media calling him a “RINO,” or “Republican in name only.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/indiana-senate-republicans-redistricting-trump
