Rep. Cherrish Pryor, a Democrat from Indiana, warned Wednesday that the Texas redistricting fight would have impacts far beyond the Lone Star state, saying “while Texas is on the frontlines of this fight, Indiana may be next in line.”
President Donald Trump has been pressuring Republican-run states, including Indiana, to redraw Congressional boundaries and dispatched Vice President JD Vance to the state this month to call for a new federal caucus.
Rep. Ed DeLaney, from Indiana, decried Vance’s visit to Indiana, telling the Associated Press it was “insulting and embarrassing.”
“Never in my life did I think the vice president of the United States would come to my state and ask them to shoplift two districts,” he said.
DeLaney also said he has seen potential drafts of redistricting maps for Indiana “floating around” and said he sensed hesitancy about them from his Republican colleagues. There’s always the risk, he said, that redistricting would backfire for the party that calls for it.
“If they have any brains, they’d look at this and ask ‘How does this play out for me?’” He said. “Every one of them won the district they have, and they won them fairly easily.”
