Republicans in the Indiana Senate on Thursday rebuked President Donald Trump and spurned his demand for mid-decade redistricting to boost the GOP’s chances of holding its House majority in next year’s midterm elections.
Despite holding a supermajority, 21 Republican state senators voted with the chamber’s 10 Democrats to reject the new congressional map, which the Indiana House approved last week. The final vote was 31-19.
The vote marks the first major defeat for Trump’s redistricting push, which kicked off in Texas over the summer. The president and his allies exerted enormous pressure on the Indiana legislators to pass the redrawn map, which targeted the state’s two Democrat-held seats. Vice President JD Vance visited the state a handful of times, and Speaker Mike Johnson made calls urging them to back the redraw.
