{"id":15683,"date":"2025-11-14T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indiana-likely-will-not-push-forward-with-redistricting-despite-pressure-from-white-house\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:02:35","slug":"indiana-likely-will-not-push-forward-with-redistricting-despite-pressure-from-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indiana-likely-will-not-push-forward-with-redistricting-despite-pressure-from-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana likely will not push forward with redistricting despite pressure from White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to force mid-decade redistricting suffered a major setback Friday, after Indiana\u2019s GOP state Senate leader declared the chamber will not convene in December to redraw maps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state&#8217;s congressional maps,\u201d Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray said in a statement, after conducting a private test vote on Friday afternoon with his caucus. \u201cToday, I&#8217;m announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a massive blow to the White House\u2019s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year via redistricting, and comes from a state Trump easily won last November. It marks the fourth state where efforts have stalled despite pressure from Trump and his political team.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to force mid-decade redistricting suffered a major setback Friday, after Indiana\u2019s GOP state Senate leader declared the chamber will not convene in December to redraw maps. &#8220;Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state&#8217;s congressional maps,\u201d [&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-15683","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\/15683","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=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}