Indiana Republicans resisted the call by President Trump for redistricting. He and the state's Republican governor threatened to back primary challenges against senators who wouldn't get on board.

A majority of Indiana Republican senators said no to President Donald Trump on redistricting. What makes Hoosiers different?

The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to hand Republicans two more seats, dealing President Donald Trump a rare rebuke from his own party in the face of the president’s months-long campaign to pressure the GOP supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will.

Despite months of mounting and concerted pressure from the Trump administration, the Indiana Senate rejected a proposal for a new gerrymandered congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The vote was a culmination of months of pressure from the White House that resulted in national media attention and threats to lawmakers.

Indiana’s redistricting bill advanced out of the Senate Elections Committee Monday evening in a 6-3 vote, with one Republican committee member voting against the bill.

The state Senate failed to pass a measure that would add 2 more Republican seats to Congress as states make new mid-decade maps