The US vice-president is set to meet Indiana Republicans as part of wider effort to redraw districts before midterms
JD Vance will travel to Indiana on Thursday to encourage Republican lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the GOP, the latest in a brazenly nationwide push to reconfigure district lines ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Republicans already control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional seats, but Republicans have complete control of state government, which would allow them to redraw the map to pick up more seats. Donald Trump is also pushing Missouri to redraw its congressional map to add more GOP seats. Republicans in Ohio, where Republicans already control 10 of 15 districts, are also likely to reconfigure their map later this year to add more Republican seats.
