According to reports, President Trump has invited all 110 Republican members of the Indiana General Assembly to the White House for a meeting on August 26th.

There’s speculation the meeting will be about redrawing the state’s congressional district maps.

IndyStar has more:

Though Indiana appears to be the next front in a nationwide fight over how congressional districts are drawn ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, it’s not clear what this previously scheduled meeting is about, first reported by Punchchbowl News. One of those email invitations shared with IndyStar shows that the White House sent the invites on July 28, well before Vice President JD Vance’s Aug. 7 visit with Gov. Mike Braun and Indiana leaders.

Multiple members of Indiana’s Republican supermajority have only in the last week started speaking out against redistricting. The Trump administration hopes that lines can be redrawn to pad the Republican majority in the U.S. Congress.

“We are being asked to create a new culture in which it would be normal for a political party to select new voters, not once a decade — but any time it fears the consequences of an approaching election,” State Sen. Spencer Deery, R-Lafayette, wrote in the most scathing statement yet on the subject. “That would clearly violate the concept of popular sovereignty by making it harder for the people to hold their elected officials accountable and the country would be an uglier place for it.”

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The July 28 invitation says this is “an opportunity for Indiana’s elected officials to hear directly from senior White House Officials and Cabinet Secretaries to learn how to partner with the Administration to implement President Trump’s Agenda at the state and local level.”

Thus far, Texas and California have been the focal points of the congressional redistricting battle.

The Texas Senate approved a new congressional district map that would likely give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Texas House Democrats fled the state to prevent a vote on the proposed map.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democratic leaders announced California would move forward with a plan to redraw its congressional maps to help Democrats gain five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

However, a poll revealed the majority of Californians oppose the redistricting plan.

KTLA provided additional details:

As California lawmakers prepare to release draft congressional maps that would give Democrats an advantage in the 2026 midterm elections, a new poll finds that most residents oppose giving politicians the power to redraw district boundaries.

The Politico/Citrin Center survey of 1,445 registered voters found 64% support keeping the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which voters created through 2008 and 2010 ballot measures to curb political influence in the process. Thirty-six percent favored shifting that responsibility back to the Legislature.

The poll, conducted July 28 to Aug. 12, found support for the commission consistent across age groups, ranging from 62% among Gen Z and millennials to 77% among members of the Silent Generation. College-educated voters were more likely than those without a degree to back the panel, 69% to 61%.

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The study also showed that 72% of Democrats, 66% of Republicans and 61% of independents said they want to keep the commission.

 

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