President Donald Trump lashed out at an Indiana lawmaker after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature defied pressure from the White House to redraw the state’s congressional districts.
The White House has been pushing Indiana legislators since August to redraw their political maps to favor Republicans in all nine congressional districts, with the goal of helping the GOP pick up two additional House seats in next year’s midterm elections.
But Indiana Senate President pro tempore Rodric Bray announced on Friday that the state Senate wouldn’t convene next month to take up the plan because it lacked sufficient support to pass.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was working with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to get the maps redrawn, and blamed Bray for the impasse.
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