Now Trump’s campaign faces its greatest test yet in a stubborn pocket of Midwestern conservatism. Although Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and the House of Representatives are on board, the proposal may fall short with senators who value their civic traditions and independence over what they fear would be short-term partisan gain.

“When you have the president of the United States and your governor sending signals, you want to listen to them,” said Rogers, who has not declared her position on the redistricting push. “But it doesn’t mean you’ll compromise your values.”

On Friday, Trump posted a list of senators who “need encouragement to make the right decision,” and the conservative campaign organization Turning Point Action said it would spend heavily to unseat anyone who voted “no.”

Senators are scheduled to convene Monday to consider the proposal after months of turmoil. Resistance could signal the limits of Trump’s otherwise undisputed dominance of the Republican Party.
Threats shadow redistricting session

Deery considers himself lucky. The police in his hometown of West Lafayette knew the senator was a potential target for “swatting,” a dangerous type of hoax when someone reports a fake emergency to provoke an aggressive response from law enforcement.

So when Deery was targeted last month while his son and others were waiting for their daily bus ride to school, officers did not rush to the scene.

“You could have had SWAT teams driving in with guns out while there were kids in the area,” he said.

Deery was one of the first senators to publicly oppose the mid-decade redistricting, arguing it interferes with voters’ right to hold lawmakers accountable through elections.

“The country would be an uglier place for it,” he said just days after Vice President JD Vance visited the state in August, the first of two trips to talk with lawmakers about approving new maps.

Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate said in mid-November that they would not hold a vote on the matter because there was not enough support for it. Trump lashed out on social media, calling the senators weak and pathetic.

“Any Republican that votes against this important redistricting, potentially having an impact on America itself, should be PRIMARIED,” he wrote.

The threats against senators began shortly after that.

Sen. Sue Glick, a Republican who was first elected in 2010 and previously served as a local prosecutor, said she has never seen “this kind of rancor” in politics in her lifetime. She opposes redistricting, saying “it has the taint of cheating.”

Not even the plan’s supporters are immune to threats.

Republican Sen. Andy Zay said his vehicle-leasing business was targeted with a pipe bomb scare on the same day he learned that he would face a primary challenger who accuses Zay of being insufficiently conservative.

Zay, who has spent a decade in the Senate, believes the threat was related to his criticism of Trump’s effort to pressure lawmakers. But the White House has not heeded his suggestions to build public support for redistricting through a media campaign.

“When you push us around and into a corner, we’re not going to change because you hound us and threaten us,” Zay said. “For those who have made a decision to stand up for history and tradition, the tactics of persuasion do not embolden them to change their viewpoint.”

The White House did not respond to messages seeking a reaction to Zay’s comments.
Trump sees mixed support from Indiana

Trump easily won Indiana in all his presidential campaigns, and its leaders are unquestionably conservative. For example, the state was the first to restrict abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

>>1463017
There redistrictings are doomed to fail lol. They're basing them off of who voted for Trump in 2024; which ignores how those pockets of voters are now pissed at him over the numerous failings of his second admin. If anything they may create new Dem districts by mistake.

But Indiana’s political culture never became saturated with the sensibilities of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement. Some 21% of Republican voters backed Nikki Haley over Trump in last year’s presidential primary, even though the former South Carolina governor had already suspended her campaign two months earlier.

Trump also holds a grudge against Indiana’s Mike Pence, who served the state as a congressman and governor before becoming Trump’s first vice president. A devout evangelical, Pence loyally accommodated Trump’s indiscretions and scandals but refused to go along with Trump’s attempt on Jan. 6, 2021, to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.

“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what was necessary,” Trump posted online after an angry crowd of his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol.

Pence has not taken a public stance on his home state’s redistricting effort. But the governor before him, Republican Mitch Daniels, recently said it was “clearly wrong.”

The proposed map, which was released Monday and approved by the state House on Friday, attempts to dilute the influence of Democratic voters in Indianapolis by splitting up the city. Parts of the capital would be grafted onto four different Republican-leaning districts, one of which would stretch all the way south to the border with Kentucky.

Rogers, the senator whose family owns the golf course, declined to discuss her feelings about the redistricting. A soft-spoken business leader from the suburbs of South Bend, she said she was “very disappointed” about the threats.

On Monday, Rogers will be front and center as a member of the Senate Elections Committee, the first one in that chamber to consider the redistricting bill.

“We need to do things in a civil manner and have polite discourse,” she said.

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>>1463020
Yeah but these republicans basically have no choice. They either do it or get primaried by Turning Point.
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/05/turning-point-vows-to-throw-so-much-money-into-primarying-anti-redistricting-indiana-senate-gop/

>>1463017
>Spencer Deery’s son was getting ready for school when someone tried to provoke police into swarming his home by reporting a fake emergency.
>Linda Rogers said there were threats at her home and the golf course that her family has run for generations.
>Jean Leising faced a pipe bomb scare that was emailed to local law enforcement.
And who are the people making these threats again?

>>1463038
Russians?

>>1463023
Would be nice to hold all the MAGA's sending these death threats accountable.
But looks like terrorism is acceptable under the trump regime.

>>1463017
Leftist terrorism isn't even news anymore it's just commonplace in America. Can barely go a day without hearing about them trying to assassinate a politician or lay pipe bombs somewhere or sending people death threats

>>1463099
shitty bait you aren't even trying today

>>1463103
He's a fascist rightoid, projection is their specialty.
They don't even bring up Kirk anymore before it was far right on fringe right violence, so it's funny that his org is threatening republicans in another purity test to move the party even further to the fringe right wing.

>>1463099
Trump got humiliated with trying to gerrymander Texas, and Newscum in California ate him for dinner. Trump thinks gerrymandering works, and doesn't realize the other side can do it too. I believe this is a result of having many mini strokes and The subsequent dementia

>>1463163
>Trump got humiliated with trying to gerrymander Texas
He succeeded
>Trump thinks gerrymandering works
It does

>>1463188
trump also proves that death threats work, since that's how republicans are being kept in line.
Also funny that Turning Point is involved given their former leader was killed by a fringe right winger.

>>1463378
If it was Biden doing death threats the Righties would be calling for his head.

>>1463188
>He succeeded
The gerrymandering will be based on 2024 results that no longer reflect how satisfied those voters are with Republicans. It's also resulted in Dem states doing so in kind, which is a war Repubs can't win when they're leaking support due to the incoming/already happening Trump recession.

>>1463379
>Republican double standards
I'm shocked!

>>1463380
Hard to say, only California has done it, everyone else is taking the classic right wing dem approach of 'We don't need to do everything to win'

>>1463380
common MAGA retards have been told that gerrymandering will allow them to take the government back from the democrats
actual GOP reps are freaking out because they've been losing elections right and left, and if they do gerrymander that hard they're probably just going to lose all those seats to dems
its hilarious to watch

>>1463413
This is why Republicans are going all in of voter suppression too. Don't be surprised if you see democratic dominate areas suddenly no longer be given voting stations and when the closing time happens, Republicans just tell anyone still in line tough shit.

>>1463414
They already did that in college areas during Trump's first term.

>>1463458
And during the last election.

>>1463414
>People don't want to vote for us
>It must be VOTER SUPPRESSION!!!
Perhaps being absolutely horrible may have something to do with it?