#indiana-redistricting

#indiana-redistricting

Of the state Senate's 50 seats, 39 are held by Republicans, and the state has voted consistently Republican in every presidential race since 1968, save for a single flip for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008. The vote is likely to reinforce the sentiment that the Republican Party is fracturing under Trump's leadership, as his poll numbers slump during the first year of his second term. Trump was confronted with the results of the Indiana vote at an Oval Office signing ceremony shortly after it happened.

Bohacek, a Republican from Michiana whose daughter has Down syndrome, said Trump's Friday remark using the word retard crossed a personal line. The president hurled the slur in a late-night anti-immigration tirade during which he branded the Democrat seriously retarded. Taking to Facebook, the lawmaker warned that words have consequences and he would be voting NO on redistricting efforts until Trump could prove his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority: Screengrab via X