Trump pressures Indiana GOP senators to pass new redistricting map

president Donald Trump Allied groups are increasing pressure on Republican senators in Indiana who are resisting the president’s pressure on the red state to pass congressional redistricting.

The Indiana Senate reconvened on Monday, three days after the House approved a new map endorsed by Trump that would create two more right-leaning congressional districts in the solidly red Midwestern state, where the GOP currently controls seven of Indiana’s nine U.S. House seats.

Working in Indiana comes next supreme court Last week paved the way for GOP-dominated Texas to use its newly redrawn map, which creates five additional House seats that lean to the right.

It represents the latest front in Trump’s aggressive national campaign to reshape congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, when Republicans are likely to face traditional political headwinds as they defend their razor-thin House majority.

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The GOP-controlled Indiana House, meeting at the Statehouse — seen in a 2017 archive photo — on Friday passed along party lines a congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump. (Michael Conroy/AP Photo)

While the vast majority in Indiana House The redistricting was approved by a vote of 57 to 41, with dozens of GOP lawmakers voting against the measure, and the stakes are much higher this week, as the Republican-dominated state Senate, which has resisted Trump’s efforts to draw new congressional maps, meets to vote later in the week on a redistricting bill passed by the state House.

Indiana Senate Republican Leader Roderick Bray has repeatedly said there is not enough support in the chamber to move forward with redistricting. The state Senate split 19-19 last month in a proxy vote.

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In a recent social media post, Trump warned, “Reno Senator Roderick Bray, who doesn’t care about maintaining his majority in the House of Representatives in DC, is the main problem. Soon, he will have a basic problem, like every other politician who supports him in this stupidity.”

“The issue of redrawing Indiana’s congressional maps mid-session has received a lot of attention and is causing conflict here in our state,” Bray said, in announcing that the state Senate would reconvene to take action on redistricting.

The final vote is likely to be taken by the state Senate on Thursday.

President Donald Trump, seen pointing at the White House on October 10, 2025, takes aim at Republican lawmakers in Indiana who do not support the president’s efforts to redistrict congressional districts. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters)

Trump has been reeling in his attempt to make Indiana the latest Republican-controlled state to change congressional maps. The President has invited state legislators and the Vice President J.D. Vance He visited the state twice earlier this fall to discuss redistricting.

This weekend, Trump turned to social media twice to keep up the pressure.

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“Why would a real Republican vote against this when Democrats have been doing this for years??? If they stupidly say no, vote them out of office – they don’t deserve it – and I will be there to help! Thank you Indiana!” to caution.

In a separate post, Trump highlighted nine Republican state senators who have not yet announced their position on the new map, saying they “need encouragement to make the right decision.” “The Indiana State Senate must now pass this map, as is, and get it to Governor Mike Brown’s desk as quickly as possible, to deliver a massive victory for Republicans in the Hoosier State and across the country,” the president added.

Trump also took some jabs at Brown, arguing that the governor “may not be working the way he should to get the votes needed.”

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While Trump recently called Brown a “good guy,” he warned that “he has to get this thing done, or he will be the only governor, whether Republican or Democrat, who has not done this.”

But Brown, referring to the president, noted that he is “committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the success of the MAGA agenda in Congress.”

Indiana Governor Mike Brown, seen speaking during a news conference on October 30, 2025, supports President Donald Trump’s push for congressional redistricting. (Michael Gard/Post Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the Trump-aligned outside conservative political group Action Club for Growth and other groups have allocated significant funds to run ads in Indiana supporting redistricting and, along with Turning Point Action, will target Republican state lawmakers opposed to the new map.

Club for Growth president David McIntosh sent a “final warning” to Bray, warning that “failure to accomplish this will mean that you and any other opposition will be defeated and removed from office at your next election.”

On Friday, Turning Point Action organized a rally at the state Capitol, where Brown spoke, to pressure Indiana Senate Republicans to support redistricting.

The president’s campaign in Indiana is part of a broad effort by Trump’s political team and the Republican Party to corral the party’s slim majority in the House of Representatives ahead of the presidential election. Midterm electionswhen the party traditionally in power loses seats.

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“We must maintain the majority at all costs,” the president recently wrote.

By defending the rare but unprecedented mid-decade redistricting process, Trump aims to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats regained the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.

Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio drew new maps as part of the president’s campaign. Lawmakers in GOP-dominated Florida this week took the first steps toward passing a redistricting measure, and right-leaning Kansas is also considering redrawing its map.

Last month, two federal judges in Texas dealt a blow to Trump and Republicans when they ruled that the state could not use the newly drawn map in next year’s elections. But the Supreme Court on Thursday gave a big thumbs up to the Lone Star State’s new congressional map.

Democrats are fighting back.

California voters a month ago overwhelmingly approved Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that would temporarily disperse the state’s left-leaning nonpartisan redistricting commission and return the power to draw congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated Legislature.

That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which would counter the passage of a new map earlier this year in Texas aimed at creating up to five right-leaning House seats.

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night news conference at the California Democratic Party office on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, in Sacramento, California. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AP Photo)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered a potential Democratic challenger in the 2028 presidential election, has led his state’s redistricting push.

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Illinois and Maryland, blue states, and Virginia, where Democrats control the Legislature, are also taking steps or seriously considering redistricting.

In a blow to Republicans, a Utah County judge last month rejected a congressional district map drawn up by the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature, instead approving an alternative that would create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.