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‘Dodged a bullet’: Republican redistricting would likely have backfired in Indiana
Perdue Exponent ^ | November 13, 2026 | Ronak Mohanty

Posted on 11/13/2026 4:45:25 PM PST by Trump20162020

Indiana Republicans spent much of fall and winter of 2025 in an open battle over an ultimately unsuccessful effort to redistrict Indiana’s congressional districts to replace the state’s only two Democrat-held seats with Republicans.

Had the new map been passed, though, Indiana Republicans — not Democrats — could have seen their delegation in the House of Representatives wiped out after Tuesday’s midterms. The GOP would have found itself with at most just two members in the House, according to an analysis done by The Exponent.

The analysis was conducted by taking preliminary precinct-level data from the Indiana secretary of state’s office and grouping the precincts by the district boundaries proposed in 2025.

“The trend is clear that Indiana, from a Republican perspective, dodged a bullet last year,” said Spencer Deery, West Lafayette’s Republican state senator and a vocal critic of redistricting.

(Excerpt) Read more at purdueexponent.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: 2026; gop; indiana

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Despite how much flak Indiana Republicans in the state legislature received from Trump and online GOP activists, turning a bunch of safe red seats less red to make blue districts slightly less blue would have probably wiped the GOP's House seats out in 2026.
1 posted on 11/13/2026 4:45:25 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

very curious how immediately after the election shit goes down. Arrest from 2 year old case. CEOs dirty laundry made public. Refrigeration and communication equipment grounded.
Is Something popping off soon?


2 posted on 11/13/2026 4:59:15 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Trump20162020

Those 2 that are up in ‘28 should still be canned. Those are the republicans who voted against redistricting. We have every right to be wrong. The democrats are always that way.


3 posted on 11/13/2026 5:00:52 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Trump20162020

I was just remarking about this earlier today with my husband. We think Indiana dodged a bullet, for sure. Grateful!


4 posted on 11/13/2026 5:03:27 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Trump20162020

It isn’t like they planned it. They are still rino jerks for not going with the program. Who knew the rats would “find” 20 million new voters in 2 years.


5 posted on 11/13/2026 5:05:16 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Trump20162020

Redistricting only galvanized Democrat turnout. It never should have been pursued.


6 posted on 11/13/2026 5:09:51 PM PST by GrootheWanderer
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To: gibsonguy

Wow.

Even among conservatives, Federalism gets murdered. 10th amendment gets shredded.


7 posted on 11/13/2026 5:22:51 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Progressivism was America's first Postliberal ideology. Ask me for details.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I think the Iranians are behind everything, including hacking the election


8 posted on 11/13/2026 5:24:06 PM PST by ac-rep
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But I thought Trump said dozens of times they were fully defeated?


9 posted on 11/13/2026 6:09:26 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Interesting..........


10 posted on 11/13/2026 6:17:47 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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