Originally published at: Indiana Senate Republicans Defy Trump Admin and Reject Gerrymandered Maps - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Despite months of mounting and concerted pressure from the Trump administration, the Indiana Senate rejected a proposal for a new gerrymandered congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The new congressional map, which was blocked in a 31-19 vote, would have redrawn district lines to favor Republicans in the state and would have effectively…
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The whole enterprise is starting to crumble, isn’t it? But what took so long?
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Every time someone tells Honest Don “No” and they don’t get swallowed into a sinkhole filled with brimstone playing tacky music from his playlist, it makes it easier for the next group to tell him “No”
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Congrats to the Indiana republicans. They said no to redistricting. It wasn’t even close.
I have to apologize for selling them short yesterday.
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It seems to be, but my God, it feels like a life time. I am afraid much more damage can be done.
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Democratic election victories in November and this week as well as diminished margins in recent Republican victories have gotten some Republicans worried about the 2026 elections.
Trump couldn’t get his choices for governor in VA and NJ elected, nor his choices for mayor in NYC and Miami.
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i mean, don’t get carried away, they are STILL republicans, after all
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How does an authoritarian’s power ebb? Slowly. Then all at once.
We’re seeing the “slowly” take shape. Thankfully.
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Finally! I have a reason to be proud of Indiana. People around here don’t like to be pushed around. Maybe threatening the grandson of one of the Republicans was just a bit too much. Effing idiots. They can’t get out of their own way. These are the same kind of people who showed up to the Capitol on Jan 6th and threatened to murder Pence. What goes around…..
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Donnie’s comeuppance is long, long overdue!
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Important story and obviously I’m thrilled but could you refrain from using Cardiac Red in your headlines? I experienced a visceral shock that is abating only slowly.
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Braun reacted to the news doubling down on his threats to primary those who voted against the redistricting proposal.
Run a bunch of poorly vetted new candidates who are even more slavishly MAGA, more tied to the patient’s increasingly unpopular agenda?
“Please proceed, Governor.”
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Trump’s going to put massive tariffs on Indiana. Just wait.
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This is mostly vainglorious puffery. As @Le_Monde_Inverse alludes to above, Indian Republicans now have abundant evidence that gerrymandered districts weaken Republican vote margins and, with the popularity of their party’s leader in the toilet already resulting in red districts flipping blue, they really don’t want to go there.
They would never resist Trump and MAGA otherwise, count on it.
To riff on Upton Sinclair’s well known aphorism that it is hard to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it, it is at least equally hard to get a man to do something when they’ll lose their job by doing it.
NB: The recent Miami mayoral election won by a Democrat for the first time in three decades and recent Democrat win in Georgia’s gerrymandered red 121st State House district probably made a lot of Republicans discover they had a commitment to democracy after all, bless their hearts.
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I have, as a web developer, many opinions on the new look of TPM as well. I’m a developer, not a designer, so I am remaining silent, as I always do when I have nothing nice to say.
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Because it is the smart thing to do, leaving it as it is guarantee that Democrats will only win two, if they further gerrymander, a blue tsunami which is very likely to happen will mean that because of the weakened red districts Dems might win three or four.
Indiana Senate Republicans Defy Trump Admin and Reject Gerrymandered Maps
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This.
It feels like these Republican state senators are either planning to not run again or are looking far enough ahead that they see this defiance as a positive for their reelection campaigns. It’s likely that by the time campaigns are in full swing, not going along with this could be a benefit as any potential primary challengers will be viewed with distrust for their ties to a president whose approval ratings may have bottomed out by then.
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I phone banked a month ago trying to convince Hoosier voters that their reputation as being skeptics of the Federal government was at risk if they cowed to Drumpf and Dunce. I take some of the credit for this vote. Cracks are showing!!!
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