National attention may have kept Nebraska lawmakers from hearing redistricting pitch in D.C.

LINCOLN — Thirteen Nebraska state lawmakers visited Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. But they didn’t get an Indiana-like pitch about redistricting a red state, as reporters waited.

Instead, the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs hosted lawmakers from Nebraska and Iowa to “hear firsthand” how President Donald Trump and his team are implementing his approach and how to “advance it at the state and local level.”

While that was the official reason, national and local news outlets reported in recent days that Trump’s team might use the meeting to discuss mid-decade redistricting with Nebraska lawmakers.

People familiar with how the meeting unfolded told the Examiner on Tuesday that redistricting wasn’t discussed, partly because of the attention surrounding the gathering. The White