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Indiana Senate rejects GOP-drawn congressional map in a major rebuke of Trump
Indiana Senate Republicans reject Trump’s redistricting push
The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to hand Republicans two more seats, dealing President Donald Trump a rare rebuke from his own party in the face of the president’s months-long campaign to pressure the GOP supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will.
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GOP-led Indiana Senate rejects new congressional map in blow to Trump
The Indiana Senate will vote on mid-decade redistricting today, capping off a bitter state fight for control of Congress that has divided the GOP, spurred violent threats and dramatically changed the political landscape ahead of the midterm elections.
Indiana Republican state senators voted against a redrawn congressional map Friday that would have favored their party in the 2026 elections, a resounding rejection of a plan pushed by President Donald Trump to help his party win all nine of the state’s congressional districts.
Indiana Republicans resisted the call by President Trump for redistricting. He and the state's Republican governor threatened to back primary challenges against senators who wouldn't get on board.
It's decision day in red state Indiana, as the state Senate votes on congressional redistricting championed by President Trump. The new map would create two more GOP-dominated U.S. House districts.
The vote was a culmination of months of pressure from the White House that resulted in national media attention and threats to lawmakers.
Despite months of mounting and concerted pressure from the Trump administration, the Indiana Senate rejected a proposal for a new gerrymandered congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Indiana’s redistricting bill advanced out of the Senate Elections Committee Monday evening in a 6-3 vote, with one Republican committee member voting against the bill.
The Indiana state Senate’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s redistricting push is one of the most significant GOP rebukes of Trump to date, and at a particularly inauspicious time for him.
The current trend of redistricting mid-cycle began in July when President Donald Trump asked Texas to redraw its map to help his party keep control of Congress, though the president's directive wasn't the first time maps have been remade halfway through the decade.
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