The Indiana Senate today convened to debate the possibility of redrawing state congressional

maps ahead of the 2026 election.

The new proposed map would likely give Republicans two additional seats, and President Trump

is highly invested in the outcome.

Our White House correspondent Liz Landers has been watching all of this and joins me now.

Good to see you, Liz.

Thanks for having me. It's a little unusual here, right? Because the Indiana Senate leaders first said they would not consider redistricting, that they didn't have support. They then reversed course. So what happened? Well, this mid-cycle redistricting has now been moving through the Indiana State House for about the last week or so. Today, it hit the Senate Election Committee where they were debating

this for several hours. We heard from the public. People speaking in opposition to this.

Also people speaking in support of redistricting in Indiana. Last week, this passed out of the Indiana

House, and it passed with an overwhelming majority. And this new congressional map would redraw

the current Indiana map.

Right now, the Indiana state delegation

is made up of seven Republicans,

two Democrats who represent them in Congress.

This redrawing of the map would redraw it

so that it would be nine likely Republican districts and no Democratic districts.

And the way that this would happen is dividing Indianapolis, the capital city, into four of

these different districts. So diluting some of their voting power there. I spoke with the former

Republican mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard, on the phone last week.

He said to me he's opposed to this.

He also thinks it's a bad idea because it will fray the community there and dilute the voting power of the folks in Indianapolis.

So this week, all eyes are now on the Senate.

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