Indiana lawmakers on Thursday rejected a mid-decade overhaul of the state’s congressional map that would’ve increased the odds of sending more Republicans to Washington, taking pressure off Illinois Democrats to jump into a national redistricting tit-for-tat started by President Donald Trump.

Twenty-one senators from the Republican supermajority and all 10 of the Hoosier chamber’s Democrats voted down the redistricting proposal which passed the state’s House last week.

Trump has urged GOP-led states to gerrymander their U.S. House districts ahead of the midterms to create more winnable seats for Republicans. It’s an unusual move, since the district boundaries are usually adjusted based on the census every 10 years.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the state’s other top Democrats had signal

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