Pete Buttigieg rallies against redistricting in home state of Indiana

Indianapolis – The former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg joined the Democrats against the redistribution in its original state of Indiana on Thursday, while pressure increases on the state legislators to restart the districts of the State Congress.

Buttigieg – A competitor to represent the Democrats aimed at regaining the presidency in 2028 – was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, before embarking on the national political scene by presenting himself for the president in 2020 and came out victorious from the Iowa caucus that year.

The Republicans of Indiana have hesitated to redirect so far compared to other states where the GOP has control. But Democrats have little power to stop the move if Republican leaders choose to create a new card.

“Indiana republicans are under pressure by Washington Republicans to do something they know in their hearts is false,” said Buttigieg.

As a rule, states redesign their congress districts every 10 years with the census. But President Donald Trump wants to give his party an advantage during the 2026 elections in order to keep majority control in the House of Representatives, because mid-term tends to promote the power party. The Republicans of Texas and Missouri have decided to create new advantageous seats while the Democrats of California have countered with their own new proposal.

The legislators of Indiana have not yet responded to the redistribution call and have kept their nearby cards, emblematic of the independent sequence of the State and its more measured approach to politics.

But Trump’s pressure to Redeursed House Districts went to the Republicans in the state he won by 19 percentage points in 2024. The governor of the first mandate, Mike Braun, a Republican, said on Tuesday that a legislative session on redistribution will probably happen, and that could happen in November. But he does not want to call a special session unless there is a successful result.

“I have been very clear. I want it to be organic,” he told WRTV in Indianapolis.

A large crowd gathered inside the state house in Indianapolis Thursday afternoon to see Buttigieg speak.

“This is a problem of equity,” said Judy Jessup, a resident of Indianapolis. “Voters should choose politicians, not the other way around.”

Buttigieg is the greatest democratic voice to get out of Indiana in recent memory. After the 2020 elections, Buttigieg and his family moved to City City, Michigan, and he was Secretary of Transport under the Biden Administration.

In an extract from her next memoirs, Kamala Harris said that Buttigieg was his first choice for the package in 2024, but she said he was running with Buttigieg, who is openly gay, was too risky. He did not address the comments on Thursday.

Braun could call a special session, but it would be up to the legislators to create a new card. The Republicans have a supermajority in the two chambers of Indiana, which means that the Democrats could not stop or delay a special session by refusing to attend, as their peers in Texas have briefly. The Republicans are also more numerous than the Democrats in the Delegation of the Congress of Indiana 7-2. Some Republicans see the opportunity to obtain the nine seats in the state.

The GOP would probably target the 1st district of the Indiana congress, a democratic bastion encompassing Gary and other cities near Chicago. The Democratic representative with three mandates, Frank Mrvan, won the re -election in 2022 and easily kept the seat in 2024 even after the Republicans listed the district of being slightly more favorable to the GOP.

Republicans could also focus on the 7th Congress district, entirely composed of the county of Marion and the democratic bastion of Indianapolis, but they would more invite controversy by releasing the largest city in Indiana and by diluting the influence of black voters.

“These two districts are filled with black voters,” said senator Andrea Hunley, who represents Indianapolis during the rally. “This is a racist power to silence the voters who look like me.”

Texas has adopted a new card that would help the Republicans to win up to five new seats, and the Governor of Missouri Mike Kehoe, a Republican, should sign legislation that would help Republicans to win seven of the eight state districts. Meanwhile, California Democrats are launching a campaign to strengthen support before a November 4 referendum on the new districts of the American Chamber which were carried out to compensate for the victories carried out by the Texas Republicans.

Utah and Ohio could soon have new cards from the Congress district, and the leaders elected in other states are also considering the redistribution of mid-December, including the Republicans in Florida and Kansas and the Democrats of Maryland and New York.

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Volmert reported to Lansing, Michigan.