{"id":321256,"date":"2025-11-29T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:34:09","slug":"indiana-gop-state-senator-says-he-will-vote-no-on-redistricting-push-after-trump-used-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321256\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana GOP state senator says he will vote no on redistricting push after Trump used slur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana state Sen. Michael Bohacek said Friday that he wouldn\u2019t support an effort in his state to redraw congressional district lines that favor Republicans after President Donald Trump used a slur for those with intellectual disabilities to describe Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences. I will be voting NO on redistricting, perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority,\u201d Bohacek wrote in a Facebook post after explaining that he has a daughter with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

Bohacek\u2019s Facebook post came after Trump said in a Truth Social post<\/a> that he would \u201cpermanently pause\u201d all immigration from \u201cthird world countries,\u201d<\/a> and took aim at Minnesota\u2019s Somali community, claiming without evidence that gangs patrol the streets of Minnesota and that \u201cthe seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bohacek\u2019s stance on redistricting comes after officials in the Trump administration \u2014 including the president and the vice president \u2014 have for months pressured Indiana\u2019s state GOP leaders to redraw congressional districts in a way that will make more of them favorable for Republicans in next year\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n

The White House, Bohacek and Walz didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment. <\/p>\n

\"MichaelMichael Bohacek.Indiana General Assembly<\/p>\n

Legislators in the Hoosier State are set to reconvene next week <\/a>to consider a redistricting measure, even though state Senate leaders earlier this month said there weren\u2019t enough votes<\/a> in the chamber in favor of partisan redistricting.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the president criticized<\/a> Indiana Republicans for not pursuing redistricting, before they decided to return to a state legislative session in December. He wrote in a Truth Social post at the time that he was \u201cvery disappointed in Indiana State Senate Republicans,\u201d and named several of them. In the same post, Trump called for primary challenges to lawmakers who didn\u2019t back redistricting, writing, \u201cAny Republican that votes against this important redistricting, potentially having an impact on America itself, should be PRIMARIED.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several of the named lawmakers were later targeted in swatting incidents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance has visited the Hoosier State twice<\/a> this year, meeting with local Republican leaders to push them forward on redistricting.<\/p>\n

Texas GOP leaders earlier this year approved<\/a> the use of new congressional maps that could help Republicans gain as many as five seats in the 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n

California Democratic leaders responded, asking voters to approve maps<\/a> that could lead Democrats in that state to gain five seats in the midterms.<\/p>\n

Leaders in both parties are pushing other states \u2014 like Ohio, Florida, Maryland and Virginia \u2014 to also pursue partisan redistricting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana state Sen. Michael Bohacek said Friday that he wouldn\u2019t support an effort in his state to redraw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-321256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}