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Trump forces Indiana GOP into redistricting reversal in race to draw new MAGA map
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The Republican-controlled Indiana House returns to session on Monday to take action on congressional redistricting pushed by President Donald Trump.
And the GOP-dominated state Senate, in a major reversal, will reconvene in one week to «make a final decision on any redistricting proposal sent from the House.»
The proposed new map would create another GOP-leaning congressional district in the solidly Republican Midwestern state.
Indiana is the latest battlefield in the high-stakes redistricting showdown pitting Trump and Republicans versus Democrats to shape the 2026 midterm landscape as the GOP defends its razor-thin House majority.
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The Indiana legislature on Monday returns to the Statehouse, seen in a file photo from 2017, to consider a congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
State House Speaker Todd Huston announced last week that «House Republicans will gavel in on Monday, Dec. 1, reconvening the 2026 regular session. All legislative business will be considered beginning next week, including redrawing the state’s congressional map.»
Despite pressure from Trump and his political team, Rodric Bray, the Republican leader in the Indiana Senate, announced two weeks ago that there wasn’t enough support in the chamber to move forward with redistricting.
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Trump, in response, repeatedly threatened to back primary challenges against state Republican lawmakers who didn’t support his congressional redistricting push.
«A RINO State Senator, Rodric Bray, who doesn’t care about keeping the Majority in the House in D.C., is the primary problem. Soon, he will have a Primary Problem, as will any other politician who supports him in this stupidity,» Trump warned in a recent social media post.
President Donald Trump, seen pointing as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025, is targeting Indiana Republican lawmakers who are not supportive of the president’s congressional redistricting push. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Bray confirmed in a statement last week that the state Senate would return into session to take action on whatever redistricting proposal passes the House.
«The issue of redrawing Indiana’s congressional maps mid-cycle has received a lot of attention and is causing strife here in our state. To resolve this issue, the Senate intends to reconvene as part of the regular 2026 session on Dec. 8,» Bray wrote.
Republicans currently control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional districts, and any new map passed by the GOP supermajority in the legislature would likely shift the state’s 1st Congressional District from blue-leaning to a red-leaning seat.
Trump has been twisting elbows in his attempt to make Indiana the latest Republican-controlled state to change their congressional maps. The president has called state lawmakers and Vice President JD Vance visited the state twice earlier this autumn to discuss redistricting.
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Trump has also taken some jabs at Republican Gov. Mike Braun of Indiana, arguing that the governor «perhaps, is not working the way he should to get the necessary Votes.»
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, seen speaking during a press conference on Oct. 30, 2025, supports President Donald Trump’s push for congressional redistricting. (Michael Gard/Post-Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
While Trump has called Braun «a good man,» he has warned he «must produce on this, or he will be the only Governor, Republican or Democrat, who didn’t.»
But Braun, pointing to the president, has touted that he is «committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the MAGA agenda is successful in Congress.»
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The push by the president in Indiana is part of a broad effort by Trump’s political team and the GOP to pad the party’s razor-thin House majority ahead of the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
Trump is aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections.
Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push. And Florida and Kansas are also mulling redrawing their maps.
«We must keep the Majority at all costs,» Trump wrote recently.
But two federal judges in Texas delivered a blow to Trump and Republicans, by ruling that the state can’t use the newly drawn map in next year’s elections. The Supreme Court put in place a temporary stay on the ruling, ahead of weighing in on the dispute.
Meanwhile, Democrats are fighting back.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Sacramento, Calif. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
California voters a month ago overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative which will temporarily sidetrack the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and return the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democrat-dominated legislature.
That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which would counter the passage earlier this year in Texas of a new map that aims to create up to five right-leaning House seats.
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Illinois and Maryland, two blue states, and Virginia, where Democrats control the legislature, are also taking steps or seriously considering redistricting.
And in a blow to Republicans, a Utah district judge last month rejected a congressional district map drawn up by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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CENTCOM commander directed strike against an IRGC headquarters in underground facility: sources
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High-level sources have informed Fox News that during rescue efforts in Iran after a U.S. fighter jet was shot down, the commander of U.S. Central Command directed an attack against an underground Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters.
While the airman rescue was going on, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper directed a strike on an IRGC headquarters in an underground facility near Tehran — it was done with B2 bombers, using Massive Ordnance Penetrators, the same weapon used last year in Operation Midnight Hammer, according to the sources. Fox News is told the headquarters was obliterated.
U.S. military B1 bombers (BONES) dropped a hundred 2,000-pound bombs during the rescue operations to keep Iranians away from the rescue area during the operation, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
A senior military source told Fox News, «we delivered the heat» on the IRGC.
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Adm. Brad» Cooper, commander of Central Command, speaks during a joint press conference with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at CENTCOM headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on March 5, 2026. (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
CENTCOM noted in a press release that U.S. forces had rescued two service members after their F-15E was downed.
Fox News was told that the operation took place between the two rescues: Cooper ordered the B2s to fly round trip from Whiteman Air Force Base in the U.S. because they received time-sensitive intelligence about the location of a large number of IRGC commanders inside this underground bunker in Tehran, and the Massive Ordnance Penetrators, bunker buster bombs, were dropped by the B2 warplanes.
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Wreckage is seen from what Iranian authorities say is a U.S. military helicopter that crashed during a mission to rescue the missing American pilot of an F-15E that was downed, in a handout image provided on April 5, 2026, in an unspecified location in Iran. (Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance/Handout via Getty Images)
Following the rescues, President Donald Trump declared in a Truth Social post, «We have rescued the seriously wounded, and really brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from deep inside the mountains of Iran. The Iranian Military was looking hard, in big numbers, and getting close. He is a highly respected Colonel. This type of raid is seldom attempted because of the danger to ‘man and equipment.’ It just doesn’t happen!»
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«The second raid came after the first one, where we rescued the pilot in broad daylight, also unusual, spending seven hours over Iran. An AMAZING show of bravery and talent by all!» he said.
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President Donald Trump touted the «historic» rescue of the downed F-15E airmen behind enemy lines and issued a warning to Iran to make a deal before Tuesday night’s 8 p.m. ET deadline or face being «taken out.»
«This is a rescue that’s very historic,» Trump told the White House press corps in a Monday news conference. «It’ll go down to the books.»
«Late Thursday night, an American F-15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating in Operation Epic Fury, where we’re doing unbelievably well. Well, at a level that nobody’s ever seen before.»
Trump quickly paused his hailing of the rescue to add a warning for Iran to come to peace.
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President Donald Trump describes the ‘historic’ mission to rescue two stranded airmen behind enemy lines. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
«The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,» Trump said.
Trump continued to press Iran to come to a peace deal, hours after saying the offers thus far are «not enough,» and War Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed the heaviest bombing of Iran to date.
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«By the way, per the president’s direction, [Monday] will be the largest volume of strikes since day one of this operation,» Hegseth vowed, taking the mic just before Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan «Raizin’» Caine.
«Tomorrow, even more than today. And then Iran has a choice,» Hegseth added. «Choose wisely, because this president does not play around. You can ask Soleimani, you can ask Maduro. You can ask Khamenei.»
Trump, responding to a question from Fox News, noted there were military leaders warning against the dangerous exfiltration of the two airmen, citing the risks to a multitude of troops.
«There were military people, very professional, that preferred not doing it: These two were totally on board, which was very important,» Trump said, noting Hegseth and Gen. Caine.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iran to ‘choose wisely’ as President Donald Trump has ordered the two heaviest days of bombings on the regime. (Kent Nishimura / AFP)
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«But, no, there were military people that said, ‘You just don’t do this; you don’t go into the heart of a very powerful military.»
Trump noted that «half the people are wearing uniforms» in Iran, exacerbating the challenges of extracting the American airmen.
«I was surprised somebody said it’s the only time it’s ever been done,» Trump continued. «I said, that’s not possible, but it is possible because you’re going into hundreds of thousands of soldiers along the path. I mean, look at some of the helicopters, how they got hit.»
Trump, in a moment that went from serious to lighter, asked Caine «how many» people conducted the rescue.
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«I’d love to keep that a secret,» Caine shot back.
«I’ll keep it a secret, but it was hundreds and hundreds of these people,» Trump said.
«Hundreds of people went into this journey. Hundreds of people could have been killed. Forget about the equipment. A lot of equipment. Nobody cares of it. Hundreds of people could have been killed,» Trump added.
«So we had people that were within the military that said, ‘This is not a wise move,’» Trump said.
«And I understood that, but I decided to do it.»
Gen. Dan Caine (right) said he wanted to keep some details of the historic rescue secret to preserve future missions as President Donald Trump (left) and War Secretary Pete Hegseth (center) vowed the two heaviest days of bombing to come in Iran. (Andrew Harnik)
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For now, Tuesday night’s 8 p.m. ET deadline looms for Iran to make a deal to Trump’s satisfaction.
«I can’t talk about ceasefire, but I can tell you that we have an active, willing participant on the other side,» Trump said, acknowledging Iran has been «excellent negotiators» because they have been able to delay peace for decades. «They would like to be able to make a deal. I can’t say any more than that.»
«I can tell you they’re negotiating, we think, in good faith,» Trump said. «We’re going to find out. We’re getting the help of some incredible countries that want this to be ended, because it affects them.
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The «plan,» short of an imminent peace deal, Trump expounded, would be devastating for a country that would require a century to rebuild.
«We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again,» Trump vowed. «I mean, complete demolition by 12, and it’ll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to. «We don’t want that to happen.»
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«So do I want to do that? No. Do I want to destroy their infrastructure? No,» Trump concluded. «It will take them 100 years to rebuild. Right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country. And it would never be as good as it was. And the only way they’re going to be able to rebuild their country is to utilize the genius of the United States of America.»
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