Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, Republican leaders from the White House to the Indiana Statehouse are considering a potentially controversial question. Could Indiana, a Republican supermajority state where the GOP holds seven of the state’s nine U.S. House districts , become an even deeper shade of red next year?

The Trump administration is encouraging Republican-led states to take up mid-decade redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms as it reckons with a tight majority in the House, which currently stands at 219 Republicans to 212 Democrats . Although anything can happen, the White House usually loses congressional seats during midterm elections.

The effort to change congressional maps is already underway in Texas , where the state’s Democrats fled to Illinois on Aug.

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