After weeks of stalling, Indiana House Republicans unveiled a congressional redistricting plan on December 1, 2025, aiming for a 9-0 GOP delegation ahead of the 2026 midterms. The new map overhauls all nine districts and breaks Democratic strongholds into less concentrated districts.
Speaker Todd Huston frankly admitted his intent to maximize Republican seats, while Democrats cynically decried it as gerrymandering. Typically, members of the Black caucus vowed lawsuits and shrieked about racism.
Explaining his position, Republican House Speaker Todd Huston said, as reported by local media, “We’ve always had districts that span hundreds of miles. The maps were put together with the interest of trying to create as many Republican seats as possible.” Similarly, he headed off potential challenges to the current language of the bill by noting, “The intent of that language is just making sure there’s a process to get to the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. They’re the final determinant.”
However, Linda Butler and other woke protesters complained about the new maps. She whined, “They’re doing it so that they can win elections. It is terrible. I think it’s terrible. That’s an illustration for me that this is wrong.”
Similarly, State Rep. Wendy Dant Chesser (D-Jeffersonville) complained about the perceived negative impact. “We’re impacted more by Louisville than by Indianapolis. It’s not the same for Central Indiana. Our representative in Congress will have split loyalties between two major metropolitan areas with two very different needs.”
Likewise, Rep. André Carson (D-Indianapolis) attacked Trump in an absurd screed. “Splicing our state’s largest city — and its biggest economic driver — into four parts is ridiculous. It’s clear these orders are coming from Washington, and they clearly don’t know the first thing about our community,” Carson alleged.
However, J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, took a more measured tone: “Under that logic, maybe Mrvan actually does have a decent shot of holding onto his seat,” he said, predicting some Democratic seats even with the new map. Additionally, he noted that the new Indianapolis-area seats “vote pretty much like the state as a whole,” in Trump’s favor.
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Predictably, grifters such as State Rep. Earl Harris (D-East Chicago), the chair of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, opposed the move. He stated, “If we come in early, we need to come in for real issues facing real Hoosiers.” Likewise, State Rep. Cherrish Pryor (D-Indianapolis) claimed, “They’re racially gerrymandered. There’s no ifs, ands and buts about it.”
Describing the history of redistricting efforts, State Rep. Tim Wesco (R-Osceola), the House Elections Committee Chair, said, “You could trace it back to when Illinois adopted their maps years ago, and they’re ridiculous, where they eliminated three Republican seats in the 2021 redistricting. The maps we adopted in 2021 were excellent maps, no doubt. But 2025 is not 2021.”
However, NGOs have promised to sue to try and block the map. Julia Vaughn, the executive director of Common Cause Indiana, reacted, “It’s a little too early to speak specifically, but I can tell you: absolutely, conversations are being had right now, and should maps be passed, they will be challenged almost immediately.”
Watch Jasmine Crockett freak out over the redistricting in Texas here: