A bunch of Republican legislators from Indiana are scheduled to visit the White House Tuesday, a number of sources conversant in the assembly instructed NCS, the place the group is probably going to talk about redistricting.
The White House despatched the invitation to the state’s lawmakers in July, one in all the sources stated. The group is predicted to meet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The assembly with Indiana lawmakers comes amid a White House stress marketing campaign for Republican-dominated states to redraw Congressional maps forward of the 2026 midterm elections. President Donald Trump hopes to cease Democrats from successful again the House – the place Republicans have a really slim majority.
Republicans maintain seven of the 9 House seats in Indiana, so any adjustments are probably to goal just one seat in northwestern Indiana, at the moment held by Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan. But a extra aggressive redistricting effort may additionally strive to embrace Rep. Andre Carson, who’s from a far safer Democratic seat surrounding Indianapolis.
The afternoon assembly isn’t listed on Trump’s each day schedule, however a senior administration official instructed NCS the president is probably going to a minimum of drop by and greet the visiting Hoosiers.
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray might be in attendance, sources conversant in the plans stated. Huston’s daughter, Liz Huston, serves as an assistant to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The invitation the members obtained in late July didn’t embrace redistricting as a subject for the assembly, one supply stated.
Several Republican lawmakers have raised considerations about the potential political fallout from a mid-decade redistricting effort, and Indiana may emerge as a take a look at case for whether or not state Republican leaders might be ready to resist stress from the White House as the redistricting arms race spreads past Texas and California.
Vice President JD Vance traveled to the Indiana Statehouse earlier this month, the place he met with Gov. Mike Braun and state legislative leaders on the concern.
Braun and the state’s GOP leaders have been noncommittal about redistricting efforts, NCS previously reported.
Tuesday’s assembly supplies the White House one other alternative to urge the state’s Republican lawmakers to contemplate redrawing their maps to probably acquire extra seats earlier than subsequent yr’s midterm elections, whilst many elevate considerations about doing so years earlier than the subsequent census.