Today, the Indiana State Senate will vote on redistricting legislation that could help Republicans hold the House in the midterms and save President Donald Trump from future Democrat impeachments.
The bill to change Indiana’s congressional map from a 7-2 Republican advantage to a 9-0 sweep will be voted on by Indiana’s Senate this afternoon. The map has already passed in the Indiana State House, but despite the fact that Republicans hold 40 out of the 50 seats in the upper Chamber and that the map has earned the support of Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., the legislation could potentially fail.
Indiana Lieutenant Governor: ‘I Don’t Think We Have the Votes’
The Daily Signal spoke with Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith about the upcoming vote.
“I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think we have the votes,” Beckwith said, adding, “It seems like [President pro tempore of the Indiana Senate Rodric Bray] is putting a lot of pressure on people to not stand with Trump, and so I think there, I think it’s personal for him.”
Bray has previously been criticized for slow-playing Indiana’s effort to redistrict.
While conservative grassroots organizations have enthusiastically embraced the effort to help Republicans nationally, some Indiana GOP lawmakers are hesitant to support the effort.
Trump’s Impeachment Is on the Line, Conservatives Say
Beckwith did not hesitate to discuss the consequences of failing to send enough Republicans to Washington.
“If we lose the House because Democrats keep stealing Republican seats, then we’re going to see Trump getting impeached. We’re going to see the cabinet being drugged before kangaroo court committees,” he explained.
Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., also stressed the importance of today’s vote on X. “Big moment for Indiana today. Democrats have rigged the system over and over again and always get away with it. Indiana State Senators have a chance to finally fight back with a fair and legal map that represents Indiana,” Banks wrote.
Matt Carpenter, the director of FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council, which operates a political grassroots network, told The Daily Signal in a statement that “Already, multiple articles of impeachment against President Trump have been filed—and for what reason? No one really knows. Now they’ve filed articles of impeachment against Secretary [Robert] Kennedy as well.”
Beckwith also expressed concern that Democrat control in 2026 could lead to unlimited efforts to stymie the Trump agenda. “You know, [Secretary of War Pete Hegseth] will probably never be able to not have a day where he’s not subpoenaed,” Beckwith said. “I mean, they’re going to do everything to stall the American First agenda that the American people voted for last year. So, this is a save our nation moment right now.”
Carpenter agreed. “Should the GOP lose control of the House in 2026, their Democrat counterparts will waste no time in doing all they can to tie down the Trump and Republican agenda ahead of 2028, playing Lilliputian to the Trump administration’s Gulliver,” Carpenter said.
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump also said failure risks “los[ing] everything to the Democrats.”
“Anybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring,” Trump wrote. “If Republicans will not do what is necessary to save our Country, they will eventually lose everything to the Democrats.”
There Will Be Consequences for Voting Against New Map
Republicans control 40 of the 50 state senate seats. Even so, it may come down to the lieutenant governor of Indiana having to break a tie in the chamber in his capacity as the president of the Indiana State Senate.
Beckwith believes that Trump’s primary threat is real, and that there will be electoral consequences for opposing the grassroots and the America First agenda.
“I’m telling you the base is fired up, and the Trump administration is already saying they’re going to put seven, maybe even eight figures into a super PAC for Indiana,” he said.
Beckwith also told The Daily Signal that while the Indiana redistrict effort has been nationalized, failure will harm Indiana residents as well.
“I think this is really going to hurt Hoosiers in the long run, because it’s just going to show Washington that we have no respect for them, and we don’t want to partner with them,” the lieutenant governor claimed.
“I don’t think [Bray’s] doing this in a way, thinking about, really the outcome for Hoosiers and working with the White House,” Beckwith contended.
A Generational Problem
Beckwith, who is 43, attributed some of the Republican reluctance to support the bill to a generational divide among the GOP.
“I would say the older generation that I see in the senate right now, they embody the spirit of Neville Chamberlain like we can make peace with evil. We just have to negotiate with evil. It’ll be fun,” Beckwith said.
Beckwith pointed to the issue of transgenderism in particular as a watershed moment for younger Republicans in the state and country.
“We’ve seen what wokeism does to lives. People that we love and care about when they go down the transgender path, because they learned it at school through the government, and then it destroys their lives,” Beckwith stated.
“These older senators, they didn’t have to go through school when boys were using girls bathrooms. They never experienced that in their classrooms. They never experienced the absolute, egregious assault on constitutional values and Christianity in the public classroom,” he added.
