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Report: Trump invites Indiana lawmakers to the White House for redistricting talks
This article will be updated.
President Donald Trump has invited all 110 Republican members of the Indiana General Assembly to the White House for an Aug. 26 meeting, Punchchbowl News is reporting.
Indiana may well become the next front in a nationwide fight over how congressional districts are drawn ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The Trump administration hopes that lines can be redrawn to pad the Republican majority in the U.S. Congress.
On Aug. 7, Vice President JD Vance discussed the prospect of redistricting in a meeting with Gov. Mike Braun and Indiana legislative leaders, but multiple members of Indiana's supermajority have already spoken out against the idea.
"We are being asked to create a new culture in which it would be normal for a political party to select new voters, not once a decade — but any time it fears the consequences of an approaching election," State Sen. Spencer Deery, R-Lafayette, wrote in the most scathing statement yet on the subject. "That would clearly violate the concept of popular sovereignty by making it harder for the people to hold their elected officials accountable and the country would be an uglier place for it."
To redraw the congressional maps in Indiana, Braun would need to call for a special session, bringing lawmakers back to approve new maps. Republicans already control seven of the nine congressional seats in Indiana.
Spokespeople for the Indiana House Republicans and Indiana Senate Republicans did not immediately respond to confirm the invitation.
Ryan Murphy is the communities reporter for IndyStar. She can be reached at rhmurphy@
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