{"id":2478922,"date":"2025-08-26T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-indiana-voters-oppose-mid-decade-redistricting-as-white-house-increases-pressure-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:35:59","slug":"majority-of-indiana-voters-oppose-mid-decade-redistricting-as-white-house-increases-pressure-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-indiana-voters-oppose-mid-decade-redistricting-as-white-house-increases-pressure-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Indiana voters oppose mid-decade redistricting as White House increases pressure campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajority-of-indiana-voters-oppose-mid-decade-redistricting-as-white-house-increases-pressure-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2478922&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses widespread opposition among Indiana voters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/common-cause-changes-tune-on-california-redistricting-fight-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Common Cause changes tune on California ... fight - Washington Examiner\">mid-decade redistricting efforts<\/a>, despite increased pressure from the trump administration adn White House officials. A recent poll shows that 52% of registered Indiana voters oppose redrawing congressional lines now, with 43% strongly against it. While Indiana&#8217;s Republican congressional delegation unanimously supports the push to redraw districts to favor Republicans, many state lawmakers, including prominent Republicans, resist the idea. Vice President JD Vance recently met with Republican state leaders to advocate for redistricting, but Governor Mike Braun and others remain noncommittal or opposed, citing lack of consensus. Additionally, the poll reveals strong opposition to gerrymandering overall and to federal interference in state politics. Indiana currently has a solid Republican majority in Congress and state elections. The article notes that similar redistricting efforts have increased nationwide ahead of the 2026 midterms, following pressure from former President Trump. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Majority of Indiana voters oppose mid-decade redistricting as White House increases pressure campaign<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2207411\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Most voters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/indiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indiana<\/a> oppose mid-decade redistricting as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump administration<\/a> is increasing its pressure on state lawmakers to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-two percent of registered voters in Indiana said they oppose redistricting now, and 43% indicated they &ldquo;strongly&rdquo; oppose it, according to a poll from the left-leaning firm Change Research obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/indiana-polling-00523844?is_magic_link=true&amp;experience_id=EXYF89KVT5UQ&amp;template_id=OTJIR2CRKUD6&amp;template_variant_id=OTV632IE7RALS\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a>. Indiana is a strong Republican state, and President Donald Trump won the state with about 58% of the votes in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3781876\/adams-cuomo-riley-gaines-mamdani-bench-press\/\">Rivals Adams, Cuomo, and Riley Gaines roast Zohran Mamdani over bench press fail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3781140\/dnc-iowa-state-senate-candidate-catelin-drey-gop-supermajority\/\">DNC bolsters Iowa state Senate candidate Catelin Drey to break GOP supermajority<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3780828\/texas-attorney-general-race-ken-paxton-aaron-reitz-chip-roy\/\">Ken Paxton endorses Aaron Reitz over Chip Roy in bid to succeed him as Texas attorney general<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The poll was released as some Indiana state lawmakers were invited to a meeting with the White House on Tuesday. The Trump administration is increasing its pressure campaign on the lawmakers to redraw the state map.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3758839\/marlin-stutzman-redraw-indiana-congressional-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indiana&rsquo;s Republican congressional delegation<\/a> has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3759596\/indiana-gop-delegation-mid-decade-redistricting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> unanimously backed the push<\/a>, state lawmakers appear to have little desire for it. Several Indiana Republicans have already said they will not<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3499989\/indiana-republicans-little-interest-in-mid-decade-redistricting-following-vances-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-and-california-battle-over-redistricting-advantages\/\" title=\"Texas and California battle over ... advantages\">mid-decade redistricting effort<\/a><\/a>. Indiana Democrats remain united in their opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance traveled to Indiana to encourage Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-braun\/\">Mike Braun<\/a> (R-IN), Republican House Speaker Todd Huston, and Senate President Republican Rod Bray to redraw the state&rsquo;s congressional districts to favor Republicans more heavily.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Republican leadership in the state has remained noncommittal to the idea. Braun most recently said he would not call a special session to redistrict &ldquo;unless there is going to be general agreement that we need to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Huston is confirmed to visit the White House on Tuesday. Republican state Rep. Jim Lucas, who said he was &ldquo;a hard (insert favorite Marine Corps word here) NO!&rdquo; said he accepted the White House&rsquo;s invitation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an honor to be invited to the White House, and I&rsquo;m not going to speculate on what the issues discussed might be,&rdquo; Lucas told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/2025\/08\/16\/rep-jim-lucas-says-he-will-travel-to-white-house\/\">the<em> Republic<\/em><\/a>. &ldquo;But I will still be a vocal no against Indiana redistricting midway through because Indiana is already such a red state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/08\/26\/indiana-republican-statehouse-lawmakers-president-trump-white-house-meeting\/85777858007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unclear<\/a> how many of the rest of the 110 Republican state lawmakers have accepted the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also found that nearly two-thirds of the survey respondents said gerrymandering should be illegal, and another two-thirds of those polled expressed opposition to the Trump administration interfering in their state&rsquo;s politics.<\/p>\n<p>The state has a 7-2 congressional makeup in favor of Republicans. In statewide and federal races, voters generally went about 60%-40% in favor of Republicans in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3495486\/redistricting-wars-threaten-make-congress-partisan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>REDISTRICTING WARS THREATEN TO MAKE CONGRESS MORE PARTISAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >nationwide gerrymandering flurry began earlier<\/a> this year after Trump pressured Texas to redraw its map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, in which Republicans are set to defend a razor-thin House majority.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted between Aug. 18 and 21 among 1,662 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Indiana voters reject mid-decade redistricting amid White House pressure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2478923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25227715769625.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7006,61521,38533,62010,32127],"class_list":["post-2478922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-indiana","tag-mid-decade-redistricting","tag-political-pressure","tag-voter-opposition","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25227715769625.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478926,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478922\/revisions\/2478926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}