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ARTICLE VIEW:
Indiana Republican state lawmakers set to visit the White House amid
Trump redistricting push
By Alayna Treene, Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz, Shania Shelton, CNN
Updated:
11:14 AM EDT, Tue August 26, 2025
Source: CNN
A group of Republican legislators from Indiana are scheduled to visit
the White House Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the meeting
told CNN, where the group is likely to discuss redistricting.
The White House sent the invitation to the state’s lawmakers in July,
one of the sources said. The group is expected to meet in the
Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The meeting with Indiana lawmakers comes amid a White House pressure
campaign for Republican-dominated states to redraw Congressional maps
ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. President Donald Trump hopes to
stop Democrats from winning back the House – where Republicans have a
very narrow majority.
Republicans hold seven of the nine House seats in Indiana, so any
changes are likely to target only one seat in northwestern Indiana,
currently held by Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan. But a more aggressive
redistricting effort could also try to include Rep. Andre Carson, who
is from a far safer Democratic seat surrounding Indianapolis.
The afternoon meeting is not listed on Trump’s daily schedule, but a
senior administration official told CNN the president is likely to at
least drop by and greet the visiting Hoosiers.
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Pro Tempore
Rodric Bray will be in attendance, sources familiar with the plans
said. Huston’s daughter, Liz Huston, serves as an assistant to Press
Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The invitation the members received in late July did not include
redistricting as a topic for the meeting, one source said.
Redistricting battle heats up
Several Republican lawmakers have raised concerns about the potential
political fallout from a mid-decade redistricting effort, and Indiana
could emerge as a test case for whether state Republican leaders will
be able to resist pressure from the White House as the redistricting
arms race spreads beyond Texas and California.
California Democrats a trio of redistricting bills last week, backed by
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, that will ask voters to replace the
state’s current congressional maps with new ones aimed at netting
Democrats five House seats.
The move was in response to Texas’ redistricting push – sought by
Trump and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott – that ignited an intensifying,
nationwide redistricting arms race. The Texas Senate approved new
congressional maps on Saturday drawn to help Republicans win as many as
five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections.
Vice President JD Vance traveled to the Indiana Statehouse earlier this
month, where he met with Gov. Mike Braun and state legislative leaders.
Braun and the state’s GOP leaders were noncommittal about
redistricting efforts,
The Indiana Republican leaders are likely to face immense pressure from
the White House and Trump allies. Still, many Republican operatives in
Indiana said they are skeptical that a redistricting effort will take
place.
Tuesday’s meeting provides the White House another opportunity to
urge the state’s Republican lawmakers to consider redrawing their
maps to potentially gain more seats before next year’s midterm
elections, even as many raise concerns about doing so years before the
next census.
Alongside Indiana and Texas, national Republicans are also to squeeze
more GOP-friendly congressional seats out of additional states as
allies of Trump have called on state leaders in Ohio, South Carolina
and Missouri to target the handful of Democratic districts remaining in
the states.
In Florida, Republicans took a first step toward a possible mid-cycle
redistricting by launching a House committee to examine the issue. And
in Nebraska, Republicans already hold all three seats, but lawmakers
could redraw the map to make the state’s swingy 2nd District less
competitive.
CNN’s Arit John, Eric Bradner, Ethan Cohen and David Wright
contributed to this report.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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