WABASH VALLEY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — State leaders are speaking out on the push to redraw congressional districts.

State Representative Bruce Borders said this call to action is a response to the way Democratic-led states have redrawn their maps in the past.

"The President, at the very least, what he has done is call attention to the unfairness of the gerrymandering of the past", Borders said.

Dr. Carly Schmitt is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana State University. She agrees that this strategy happens on both sides of the political aisle, but said this time it's different.

"Depending on who gets to control the redistricting process, we will always see that, but this is blatant redistricting that is happening for a political partisan endgame", Schmitt said. "That very

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