Indiana House Republicans voted today to go along with President Donald Trump’s demand for redrawing the state’s congressional maps.

The House action sends the congressional redistricting issue to the state Senate, where its future is in real doubt. The chamber’s Republican leader has said for months that too few senators are in support for it to pass.

House members voted 57-41 in favor of the new maps crafted to produce a 9-0 Republican delegation by carving up the districts currently held by Democratic Reps. André Carson in Indianapolis and Frank Mrvan in the area along Lake Michigan near Chicago.

Twelve Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the bill.

Democratic lawmakers denounced the proposed redistricting as a racial gerrymander for dividing Carson’s 7th District – the state’

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