Indiana House reconvenes Monday for Trump-backed redistricting push

The Republican-controlled Indiana House returns to session Monday to take action on congressional redistricting pushed by President Donald Trump.

In a major coup, the GOP-dominated state Senate will reconvene in one week “to make a final decision on any redistricting proposal sent from the House.”

The proposed new map would create another Republican-leaning congressional district in a strongly Republican Midwestern state.

Indiana is the latest battleground in the high-stakes redistricting showdown between Trump and Republicans versus Democrats shaping the 2026 midterm landscape as the GOP defends its razor-thin House majority.

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“House Republicans will vote on Monday, December 1, to resume the regular session for 2026. All legislative business will be considered starting next week, including redrawing the state’s congressional map,” House Speaker Todd Houston announced last week.

Despite pressure from Trump and his political team, Roderick Bray, the Republican leader in the Indiana State Senate, announced two weeks ago that there was not enough support in the chamber to move forward with redistricting.

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In response, Trump repeatedly threatened to support primary challenges against Republican state lawmakers who did not support his congressional redistricting efforts.

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.”

President Donald Trump, seen making the gesture while boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on September 11, 2025, takes aim at Republican lawmakers in Indiana who do not support the president’s congressional redistricting campaign. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Bray confirmed in a statement last week that the state Senate will return to session to take action on any redistricting proposal that passes through the House.

“The issue of redrawing Indiana’s congressional maps mid-session has received a lot of attention and is causing conflict here in our state. To resolve this issue, the Senate intends to reconvene as part of the 2026 regular session on December 8,” Bray wrote.

Republicans currently control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional districts, and any new map passed by the GOP supermajority in the Legislature would likely shift the state’s first term. Congressional district From the blue seat to the red seat.

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

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

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)

While Trump described Brown as a “good man,” he warned that “he has to get this thing done, otherwise 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.”

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The president’s campaign in Indiana is part of a broad effort by Trump’s political team and the GOP to shore up the party’s slim majority in the House ahead of midterm elections, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.

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. Florida and Kansas are also considering redrawing their maps.

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

But two federal judges in Texas dealt a blow to Trump and Republicans, ruling that the state cannot use the newly drawn map in next year’s elections. The Supreme Court temporarily suspended the ruling before considering the dispute.

Meanwhile, Democrats are fighting back.

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 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.

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

And in a blow to Republicans, A Utah County Judge Last month, he rejected a congressional district map drawn up by the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature and instead approved an alternative that would create a Democratic-leaning district before the 2026 midterm elections.