Overview
- Twenty-one Republicans joined all ten Democrats to reject the map in a special session, dealing the proposal a decisive defeat.
- The House-passed plan targeted Democratic Reps. André Carson and Frank J. Mrvan and was designed to tilt all nine districts toward Republicans.
- The White House mounted a hard sell with Trump threatening primary challenges, Vice President J.D. Vance visiting multiple times, Speaker Mike Johnson calling senators, and Gov. Mike Braun urging passage.
- Indiana State Police confirmed multiple threats to lawmakers, including bomb threats reported by at least two Republican senators, as tensions over the vote escalated.
- Analysts say mid-cycle mapping to date points to a GOP net gain of roughly one to four seats nationwide, with Florida and Virginia discussed as potential next battlegrounds.