Indiana state lawmakers will convene on redistricting in December

Daniela Altimari, CQ-Roll Call on Nov 26, 2025

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WASHINGTON — Indiana state lawmakers will gavel in next month to consider a redistricting measure in response to insistent demands from President Donald Trump, reversing an earlier decision by the state Senate.

The state House will reconvene on Dec. 1 to take up “all legislative business,” including redrawing the state’s congressional map, Speaker Todd Huston said in a statement Tuesday.

The state Senate will gavel in on Dec. 8. “The issue of redrawing Indiana’s congressional maps mid-cycle has received a lot of attention and is causing strife here in our state,” Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray said in a statement, adding that his chamber would “make a final decision that week on any redistricting proposal sent from the House.”

Bray had initially resisted the effort to redraw Indiana’s congressional map, declaring that there weren’t enough votes in the state Senate.

That prompted an angry reaction from Trump, who referred to Bray and state Sen. Greg Goode as RINOs, or Republicans in name only, and signaled he would support primary challengers against Republican state senators opposed to the effort. Goode was subsequently the target of a swatting incident at his home.

It’s unclear if sufficient support now exists within the state Senate in support of mid-decade redistricting.

Republicans currently hold seven of Indiana’s nine House seats. A new map could target one or both of the state’s Democratic members — Reps. Frank J. Mrvan, who is already a GOP target under the state’s existing map, and André Carson.

The White House had been pushing for Indiana to join other GOP-controlled states in redrawing their district lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections in an effort to help the Republican pick up additional House seats and maintain their majority.

The effort, which began with Republicans in Texas, has spread across the nation to both red and blue states.

On Tuesday, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to praise the Indiana House for “stepping up to do the right thing.”.

“I hope the Senate finds the Votes. If they do, I will make sure that all of those people supporting me win their Primaries, and go on to Greatness,” he wrote, before renewing his threat to support primary challenges against those who don’t.

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