Republican state senators in Indiana defied the will of President Donald Trump on Thursday, voting down reworked congressional maps that would have added Republican seats to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.

The Hoosier State is one of several deep-red states that Trump has pressured to redraw their congressional maps ahead of the midterms. Fearing a blue wave amid generally negative polling, Trump has pushed his allies to tilt the maps in the Republican Party‘s favor. Indiana’s proposed maps would have tilted all 9 of the states House districts toward the GOP. Conservatives in the state’s upper chamber rejected the prospective maps by a vote of 19-31.

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The 31 state senators who voted down the map did so while facing enormous pressure from national party lea

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