{"id":12118,"date":"2025-08-07T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-meeting-doesnt-immediately-convince-indiana-leaders-to-redistrict\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:17:09","slug":"vance-meeting-doesnt-immediately-convince-indiana-leaders-to-redistrict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-meeting-doesnt-immediately-convince-indiana-leaders-to-redistrict\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance meeting doesn&#8217;t immediately convince Indiana leaders to redistrict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Republican Gov. Mike Braun remained noncommittal about a mid-decade redistricting push following his meeting with Vice President JD Vance in Indiana on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe covered a wide array of topics. We listened,&#8221; Braun told reporters in response to a question about whether an agreement was reached.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting \u2014 which took place amid sustained booing by protesters gathered inside the statehouse \u2014 went \u201cpretty good,\u201d Braun said. <\/p>\n<p>Vance&#8217;s visit to the state comes amid a push from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/07\/republicans-are-full-steam-ahead-on-redistricting-and-not-just-in-texas-00496450\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s team to redraw maps &#8220;everywhere where redistricting is an option.&#8221;<\/a> A plan in Texas is already well underway, where Republican lawmakers drew a new map that could net Republicans as many as five Republican-leaning seats, and Democrats in the Lone Star state fled in a last-ditch effort to stop the map from passing.<\/p>\n<p>A black curtain hung in front of the governor\u2019s office as Vance met with legislative leaders, and Vance left the statehouse and headed to a local hotel for a Republican National Committee fundraiser. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Republican Gov. Mike Braun remained noncommittal about a mid-decade redistricting push following his meeting with Vice President JD Vance in Indiana on Thursday. \u201cWe covered a wide array of topics. We listened,&#8221; Braun told reporters in response to a question about whether an agreement was reached. The meeting \u2014 which took place amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}