Indiana GOP Drops Redistricting Bid | EUROtoday

Republicans within the Indiana state legislature canceled a particular session known as on the behest of President Donald Trump to think about drawing new maps to remove two Democratic Party-held House seats on Friday.

The canceled session in Indiana marks a serious loss for Trump and Republicans as they push GOP-run states to interact in mid-decade redistricting in a bid to insulate their skinny majority within the House from Trump’s rising unpopularity forward of the 2026 elections.

“Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state’s congressional maps,” Indiana state Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray stated in a press release. “Today, I’m announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December.”

Republicans thought they might flip the one two Democratic seats within the state’s nine-member House delegation into the GOP column by means of redistricting. The White House ran an all-out stress marketing campaign on state leaders, with Vice President JD Vance visiting the state twice. And it appears to be like like Trump world is mad.

“BREAKING: Sen Rodric Bray announces retirement,” Chris LaCivita, Trump’s 2024 co-campaign supervisor, posted on X following the announcement.

The GOP’s reversal in Indiana follows a brutal week for the celebration’s redistricting marketing campaign. California voters overwhelmingly authorized a poll initiative permitting the Democratic-dominated legislature to put aside the state’s nonpartisan redistricting fee and draw partisan maps eliminating as much as 5 GOP-held seats. That would offset the potential achieve of 5 seats Texas Republicans created once they launched this redistricting struggle in August.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s gubernatorial victory and her celebration’s romp in state legislative elections in Virginia got here after the celebration introduced it too would redraw maps to favor Democrats in response to Trump’s redistricting push.

And in Utah, a choose required the state to undertake a brand new House map that creates a secure Democratic seat centered in Salt Lake City following litigation in state court docket.

At the identical time, state Republican leaders rejected Trump’s redistricting overtures in Kansas and New Hampshire.

With Indiana now off the map, Republicans have redrawn House maps in 4 states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio — for a possible achieve of seven seats. Democrats would probably exceed Republicans’ haul when combining good points from new maps in California, Utah and, probably, Virginia.

There are nonetheless different GOP redistricting efforts that would achieve steam in Florida and Nebraska, however it seems that California’s profitable counter to Texas’ redistricting, together with Democratic victories within the 2025 elections, has decreased the urge for food amongst state-level Republicans for tinkering with their maps.