Roundup: Indiana Rejects Redistricting, Trump Bashes Immigrants In Pennsylvania

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It’s been a busy week in the political world. We discuss the Indiana state Senate's rejection of President Trump's push to redraw the state’s congressional districts, President Trump's speech on the economy in Pennsylvania in which he denigrated immigrants, and the United States' seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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1:06.5	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics.
1:11.6	I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanar, senior political editor and correspondent.
1:15.9	It's been a busy week in politics, so let's try and unpack some of what's happened. And I want to start in Indiana.
1:21.7	President Trump pressured the state's Republican lawmakers there, like he has others in other Republican-led states, to redistrict their
1:29.1	house seats to give Republicans a more favorable chance of success ahead of next year's midterms.
1:34.9	But Indiana lawmakers said no and refused with a majority of Republicans voting against the
1:40.8	plan.
1:42.2	Domenico, other reliably read states, as we've talked about, Texas and
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