Indiana GOP rejects Trump's redistricting effort.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate voted 31–19 to reject a redrawn congressional map designed to increase the number of GOP seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. President Donald Trump and national Republicans pushed for the new map and lobbied the state’s Republican leadership to back the effort. In the end, 21 Republican senators joined all 10 Democratic senators in opposing the bill, leaving it short of the 26 votes required to pass.
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| 0:28.6 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. Today is Tuesday, December 16th. And today, we are covering Indiana's redistricting rejection. |
| 0:38.8 | I think maybe the best way I put it is Indiana GOP |
| 0:41.8 | rebuking President Donald Trump. |
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