by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News December 15, 2025
A group of 21 state senators in Indiana on Thursday voted along with all 10 Democrats in the state Senate to reject a redrawn congressional map that was supported by President Donald Trump.
The Republican-dominated Indiana state Senate voted 31-19 against redrawing the state’s congressional districts.
Indiana has nine seats in the U.S. House, seven of which are currently filled by Republicans. The redrawn map was expected to favor the GOP in all nine seats.
The state Senate’s Republican leader, President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, opposed the redrawn map and drew the ire of Trump, who wrote in a post to Truth Social:
“Unfortunately, Indiana Senate ‘Leader’ Rod Bray enjoys being the only person in the United States of America who is against Republicans picking up extra seats, in Indiana’s case, two of them. He is putting every ounce of his limited strength into asking his soon to be very vulnerable friends to vote with him.
“Rod Bray and his friends won’t be in Politics for long, and I will do everything within my power to make sure that they will not hurt the Republican Party, and our Country, again. One of my favorite States, Indiana, will be the only State in the Union to turn the Republican Party down!”
Indiana state House Republicans passed the redrawn map last week by a 57-41 margin, with 12 GOP members joining all Democrats in voting “no.”
Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have drawn new maps as part of the president's push to keep the GOP House majority after the 2026 midterms. State lawmakers in GOP-dominated Florida recently took the first steps towards passing a redistricting measure, and right-leaning Kansas is also mulling redrawing its map.
