After a months-long campaign by the Trump administration including visits by Vice President J.D. Vance, Indiana Senate Republicans announced Friday that they’re rejecting President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional maps in order to help Republicans win more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray said in a statement this weekend: “Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state’s congressional maps.”
He added, “Today, I’m announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December.”
[Per request of Governor Mike Braun, the State Legislators were scheduled to meet for a special session on December 1, to consider drawing more Republican-leaning U.S. House districts.]
Today, Braun continued to voice his support for Trump and redistricting, writing: “I just had a great call with President Trump! I told him I remain committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the MAGA agenda is successful in Congress.”
I just had a great call with President Trump! I told him I remain committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the MAGA agenda is successful in Congress. Indiana’s State Legislators must show up for work and take a public vote for…
— Governor Mike Braun (@GovBraun) November 17, 2025
Braun added: “Indiana’s State Legislators must show up for work and take a public vote for fair maps to counter the gerrymandering in California and Illinois. But the Indiana State Senate is hiding behind closed doors and refusing to even bring redistricting to a vote. Hoosiers deserve to know where their legislators stand and expect them to show up for work, not walk out and hide in the dark.”
State Sen. Liz Brown (R-Fort Wayne), a supporter of redistricting, responded on social media: “This is bad news for our conservative values. If Democrats take control of Congress, we will see impeachment hearings, woke ideology and higher taxes thrust upon Indiana and the rest of the country. Indiana will be blamed. And how cowardly that we couldn’t even take a vote. This is the time to stand up to Democrats who wish ill upon us, not cower to their demands.”