Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump losing Indiana redistricting and Republicans.

Trump applied enormous pressure for months to Republicans in Indiana

to try to convince them to redistrict the state and gerrymander it.

He needed them to assist him in overriding voters who are unhappy with Republican performance

at the national level. Trump wanted a special session to begin December 1st and wanted more

Republican-leaning districts drawn up.

He didn't get his wish, and Senate President Pro Tem Roderick Bray made the announcement by saying, quote.

Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration

to the concept of redrawing our state's congressional maps.

Today, I'm announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December.

Indiana Governor Mike Braun and Trump allies immediately started attacking the decision,

primarily because it shows another breakdown in Republican obedience to Trump. As long as state

legislators don't cave, this will be the first Republican-led state to refuse Trump's demands for

gerrymandering. Now, the refusal may not be entirely because they're starting to view Trump as a

lame duck. Republicans in the state have supermajorities in both the House and Senate. They also hold seven of the

nine U.S. House seats. Republicans in Indiana have a firm hold on the state and might be worried

that any gerrymandering attempt might turn into a dummymander if they try to redistrict and upset the people of Indiana,

especially with Trump's economic policies creating havoc across the country.

In Indiana, soybean farmers have taken a huge hit due to Trump's trade wars.

Those farmers are probably on edge, because while

the Trump administration has said China agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans by January,

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