Name: Indiana Republicans vote down state redistricting
Uploaded: 2025-12-15T17:33:43.919Z
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Description: Gabriela Berropspi and Diana London join to discuss Indiana Republicans voting against state redistricting plans.

Gabriela Berropspi and Diana London join to discuss Indiana Republicans voting against state redistricting plans.

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Indiana Senate Republicans have voted against a proposed redistricting plan that, if passed, could have allowed the party to flip the state's only two Democratic-held seats. The decision was attributed by some party members to concerns about fairness and the perception that the plan would allow politicians to select their voters, rather than the other way around.

The vote has intensified discussions about internal divisions within the Republican Party, with commentators noting growing rifts between establishment figures and MAGA conservatives. The outcome has also sparked debate about the impact on upcoming primaries and the broader national trend of redistricting efforts ahead of the midterm elections.

Indiana Republicans vote down state redistricting

Gabrielle, I'll start with you. If Indiana Republicans had voted for the redistricting plan, Republicans could have flipped the only two Democratic seats there in the state. Why do you think majority of Republicans voted against this? Well, because I think it's not fair, right? When you do this, you're basically having the politicians choose the voters instead of the voters choosing the politicians. And when you create that type of scenario, then there's no consequences, then you don't have to do a good job. It's almost like if a business has no competition, then they can overcharge and under deliver and ignore the customers. So it's the same thing in politics. Diana, do you agree with Gabrielle's assessment that these Republicans in Indiana are ignoring the will of the voters? Yeah, you know, I think that we have to remember that Trump overwhelmingly won Indiana. And if you looked at the polling of the redistricting, they were for it 78%. So this is what I think is going to happen. I think you're going to see 21 primaries. I think that people are pissed, and they should be. Why is it that we are great at campaigning, but we absolutely suck at governing? We have an opportunity at this point to secure and pick up all of those seats that we lost in California from Newsom's. And how are we going to compete? I mean, the Democrats, when they get into power, they stick together, band together and do what they feel collectively is good for their party. We, for some reason, we can't get it together. But we better get it together, because they're going to impeach the president. And that is a real thing. Already, they're calling to impeach, you know, half of his cabinet. And so we need to get it together, you guys, because the next two years are going to be bad. The midterms will be here before we know it. It will be terrible. Well, President Trump, speaking of kind of these primary votes here, he says he hopes the top Republican in Indiana's state Senate, that's the Senate pro tem president, Roderick Bray, loses his next primary after siding with the Democrats on redistricting here. He's not up, though, until 2028 for re-election here. But with the majority of the Republicans in the state Senate opting to, you know, buck this plan, does that insulate them, say, from a primary threat, do you think? Safety in numbers. Yeah. I mean, I think that we have to be very clear. You know, are we working for the people or are we just going after our own self-interest? And I think the American people are very angry. The voters who don't feel heard, who feel like they're they're cheating, they're doing things that are not serving them and not putting them first. Right. We're supposed to be America first. If we're not delivering on that promise, I agree with Diana, we're going to have a huge issue in the midterm elections. Diana, does this put a pause? I've been describing this all year as a gerrymandering arms race. What happened in Indiana? Does this put a pause on some of these other states' efforts to to take up the same issue, to get a new map in before the midterms here? Do you think we've seen this fizzle out after Indiana or no? No, I don't think so. I mean, listen, we saw Texas. We saw North Carolina. Florida is going to be redistricting as well. This is the reality. The Biden administration led hundreds of millions of illegal immigrants into our country. And then they rigged the census at the same time. If you follow how the census are done, they did that as well. They were making it easy. Note ID. And so we have to, you know, our cities kind of dictate kind of how some of these states go. So, no, I think we're going to keep pushing forward. We need to keep pushing forward. We need to make these elections fair, these maps fair. And if you look at how the Republicans are redrawing these maps, they are very fair. They're based on population, values, communities. And so, no, stay focused, block out the noise, and get the job done. The president, this is one thing I want to say just really quick. They love to align themselves with the president when they're running for election. And they love to have him campaign for them. But when he's in office and he's asking you to get the job done, they forget about that. And that is what the voters, when you're talking about discouraging them coming out, that's what discourages them. They say, why am I voting for these people? They say they love the president, but they won't get his agenda done. So please remember that. Gabriella, final thoughts there. This is Republicans against Republicans. They're pitting themselves against each other here. Kind of the establishment wing there in Indiana, the Mike Pence, Mitch Daniels wing with more MAGA conservatives here. Can they stop fighting, or is this too far gone at this point? I have to tell you, I'm very concerned about the division in the Republican Party. We used to talk a lot about division in general in this country, mostly, you know, Democrats versus Republicans. But the Republicans are so divided right now, and you see it everywhere. Not just this example, but also you just have to log in social media, and they don't stop fighting. So if we don't unite and we don't start working together, I think we're going to be facing very challenging times. Yeah, a lot of infighting. Diana Gabriela, thanks so much.

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