A new Club for Growth ad encourages Indiana Republicans to pass new congressional boundaries. (Screenshot)
A Washington, D.C.-based interest group has released a third ad urging Indiana Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map.
The ad, titled Paralyzed, is a part of a new, six-figure investment from Club for Growth in Indiana. It will air on Fox News cable, satellite, and Sunday political shows this weekend across the state.
The push will also include phone calls encouraging constituents to contact their state senators to support redistricting. That chamber has been more reluctant to pursue redistricting.
The ad focuses on how California voters approved a new map favoring Democrats in the November general election.
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“California carved new maps. Surgically removing Republican seats to give Democrats control of Congress and gut Trump’s agenda. Sidelining Republicans, blocking Trump’s priorities,” the ad says.
“If Indiana does nothing, they’ll flip Congress overnight. Stopping tax cuts, letting waste, fraud and abuse pile up, and impeach Trump again. Indiana has one chance,” it continues. “Redraw the maps. Protect Hoosiers.”
Trump started the national redistricting fight by pushing Texas Republicans to redraw its congressional map this summer, followed by Republican redistricting moves in Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina. An attempt by Kansas Republicans for a special session on redistricting has stalled.
Democrats responded with their own redistricting in California, with other possible moves in Illinois and Virginia.