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The Indiana Senate\u2019s Republican supermajority had a choice Thursday. They could acquiesce to the White House\u2019s demands that they approve a new congressional map\u00a0 and potentially turn the state\u2019s entire House delegation red. Or they could listen to their constituents and consciences. As their sweeping 31-19 rejection of the new map showed, they chose well.<\/p>\n

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This outcome was in no way a foregone conclusion. President Donald Trump had promised to back a primary challenger against any Indiana Republican lawmaker who vote against redistricting. Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Indiana Gov. Dan Braun were all recruited to work the phones, meet with lawmakers and threaten dire consequences for any Republican who defied Trump\u2019s wishes. Outside groups spammed everyday Hoosiers hoping to persuade them to pressure their representatives to support a new map. And still a voted no.<\/p>\n

Trump has been lobbying GOP state lawmakers hard this year to gerrymander their congressional districts to shore up the fragile Republican majority in next year\u2019s midterms. Republicans hold seven of Indiana\u2019s nine seats in the U.S. House. The new map would have doomed the two Democratic-held seats by carving up Indianapolis among four districts and splitting another blue stronghold near Lake Michigan over two districts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Indiana House voted last week 57-41 to support that aggressive gerrymander, but Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray had long made it clear to the White House that the votes weren\u2019t there in the Indiana Senate. And Bray gave no indication he was willing to strongarm his members to do Trump\u2019s bidding. But Trump kept pushing until the legislature agreed to Braun\u2019s request to hold a special session after Thanksgiving to consider the issue.<\/p>\n

Importantly, as Indianapolis\u2019 WFYI reported, the proposed gerrymandered map wasn\u2019t even produced by state lawmakers or their staff. The National Republican Redistricting Trust provided the proposed borders to the bill\u2019s main author, who said during a hearing last week: \u201cI got it handed to me on paper.\u201d NRRT executive director Adam Kincaid also helped draw up the gerrymandered map Texas lawmakers approved in August, designed to add five new Republican seats. That kicked off the ongoing tit-for-tat redistricting rush across the country.<\/p>\n

But it turns out Hoosiers don\u2019t look kindly on being told what to do. As CNN reported, speaking with voters across Indiana \u201cunderscored two political realities: Rank-and-file Republicans in this deep-red state generally haven\u2019t soured on Trump. But they aren\u2019t rushing into battle for him, either \u2014 and they don\u2019t think this issue will be top of mind when they cast their votes in a state Senate primary.\u201d Bray in particular received plenty of support from the Indiana voters CNN spoke with and has shrugged off the idea that he would be vulnerable to a challenger.<\/p>\n

Many of Bray\u2019s members showed that same stubborn indignation at the idea they\u2019d listen to Washington\u2019s aggressive tactics over their constituents. The Atlantic\u2019s Russel Berman reported ahead of Thursday\u2019s vote, that many Indianians he spoke to, Democrats and Republicans, \u201csaid that the push for mid-decade redistricting simply ran afoul of the small-c conservatism on which many Indiana Republican legislators still pride themselves.\u201d There wasn\u2019t only ideology at play though, as Berman noted, but a very pragmatic political reality at work:<\/p>\n

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Only half of the senators will be on the ballot next year, and a number of Republicans in the chamber have already announced their retirement. GOP senators also have reason to doubt that either Trump or his allies will follow through on promised spending in the coming years, particularly for those whose next election isn\u2019t until 2028. \u201cThe idea that Trump would be spending political capital not just four months from now, but two and a half years from now, individually targeting Indiana senators who defied them on one vote? Just crazy,\u201d [Indianapolis city council member Nick Roberts] said. By 2028, \u201cthey will have bigger fish to fry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Still, there was no guarantee that Indiana state senators would take that chance. There were multiple threats of political violence against state lawmakers who spoke against the redistricting plan before the vote. But as state Sen. Sue Glick said after she voted against the proposed map: \u201cYou have to know Hoosiers. We can\u2019t be bullied, we don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gerrymandering is undemocratic at its core; it\u2019s an attempt to pre-sort voters into supposedly safe and unsafe districts, effectively homogenizing the electorate. In effect, gerrymandering envisions a world where elections are decided without a single vote being cast.<\/p>\n

Gerrymandered lines drawn up by lawmakers are bad enough, but having them drawn up, in this case, by people disconnected from the state, means that not even the concerns of Indiana\u2019s Republicans were driving the process: only the national party\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n

In the end, the Indiana State Senate rejected a map drawn up by a national group to further national Republican goals. A majority of the GOP caucus voted with every Democrat in standing firm against the proposal. In voting that Trump-backed map down, the Republicans voting no demonstrated that not all Republicans are the same and that even in a MAGA dominant era and that voters don\u2019t appreciate being told that their vote won\u2019t matter. Even if what happened in Indiana will be harder to replicate elsewhere, these lawmakers\u2019 refusal to be shoved into a misshapen box is encouraging.<\/p>\n

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