The Republicans bucking Trump
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How did Donald Trump push Indiana Republicans on redistricting at the White House Christmas party?
President Trump was busy last weekend. Kennedy Center Honors.
It's like sometimes you could say, like people, either have it or you don't. Great sound in this building.
Crashed a staff holiday party at the White House.
Many of you have been with me from the beginning until the first term, and we love you all, and I just want to wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, a Happy Hanukkah to all of you.
But all Trump wants for Christmas is for Indiana Republicans to pass a new congressional map. If they stupidly say no, vote them out of office. They are not worthy. And I will be there to help. Thank you, Indiana. Trump thinks he can gerrymander his way to victory in the 2026 midterm elections. But some Indiana Republicans aren't buying it. Trump and his MAGA movement have taken over the GOP. But in Indiana and beyond, there are some signs of cracks in the coalition. That's coming up on Today Explained from Vox.
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The house will be in order. The clerk may call the roll.
Today... Yay. Explained. Yay. Adam Wren covers national politics for Politico. He's based in Indiana, where members of the statehouse just passed a new congressional map that heavily favors Republicans. President Trump is obsessed with redistricting right now, all across the country. But he's become particularly focused on this effort in Indiana.
He brought it up this past weekend at the White House Christmas party. He's posting about it on True Social.
The Indiana Senate must now pass this map as is and get it to Governor Mike Braun's desk ASAP to deliver a gigantic victory for Republicans in the Hoosier state and across the country.
You know, he thinks that Indiana, a state that he once called Importantville because it allowed him to win the still contested GOP presidential primary in 2016, he thinks the key to maintaining the GOP majority in Congress runs through Indiana.
So the new map will go to the state Senate next, where there seems to be some drama. Is this a certainty that this new map passes? And if not, what's the holdup? Not at all.
A few weeks ago, the Indiana Senate took a test vote on this.
All right, roll call's been called.
And the State Senate is 50 people, 40 Republicans, and they deadlocked 19 to 19 on whether or not to pass this. So there was no majority, there were seven votes short of a majority. And so it's not at all clear this week that this map will pass out. Senate Republicans in Indiana are a much more sort of traditional kind of Republican, a pre-Trump Republican Party. They're influenced more by former Vice President Mike Pence, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who had a more traditional kind of Main Street Chamber of Commerce approach to their brand of Republicanism than Trump does. And so while Indiana is a Trump state, it's not really a MAGA state. And so we're seeing divisions in the Trump party that really could kind of foreshadow where things are headed in 2028.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
How did Donald Trump push Indiana Republicans on redistricting at the White House Christmas party?
0:00–13:16
2
Why did the Indiana statehouse's new congressional map spark a showdown in the state Senate?
13:16–24:24
3
Who are the key Indiana Republican players shaping the redistricting fight and what are their motives?
24:24–28:39