Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray is in the midst of the greatest political maelstrom of his seven-plus years as the chamber’s leader, facing President Donald Trump’s ire over congressional redistricting.

Bray announced Tuesday that the Senate would meet the week of Dec. 8 to possibly consider redrawing Indiana’s current U.S. House map — under which Republicans have a 7-2 majority — to improve the GOP’s chances of capturing all nine seats. That move came after a deeply divided Senate had voted last week to scrap a December session, with Bray maintaining that too few Republican senators supported redistricting for it to clear the Senate.

Things to know about Bray:

As Senate president pro tempore, he is leader of the Senate’s majority party (which has been the Republicans since

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