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A Republican state lawmaker in Indiana said he would oppose President Donald Trump’s proposal to redraw the state’s congressional district lines. The President often used abusive language against people with disabilities,
For the past few months, the President and his allies in Congress have been seeking to keep states with Republicans Governors and state legislatures redrawn their congressional lines. In hopes of winning more seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
Texas and Missouri both redrawn their maps. A lower court judge ruled against the effort in Texas, but Supreme Court temporarily halted that order,
But so far Republicans in Indiana haven’t taken the initiative and they don’t have the votes. During the Thanksgiving holiday, Trump called Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “seriously disrespectful.”
This proved too much for state senator Mike Bohasek, who announced his opposition to the redistricting effort based on Trump’s words.
“Many of you have asked my position on redistricting,” he said. “I have been an unabashed advocate for people with intellectual disabilities since the birth of my second daughter. Those of you who do not know me or my family may not know that my daughter has Down syndrome. This is not the first time our President has used these derogatory and derogatory references and his choice of words will have consequences.”
Trump has in the past mocked people with disabilities or used ableist language by calling his political rivals “low IQ.” Most famously, he mocked Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Serge Kovaleski with a disability in 2015.
Bohasek said Trump needs to be worthy of the Republican majority.
“I would vote ‘no’ on redistricting, perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.”
Despite efforts to remove the term from the vocabulary in the 2000s, the slur continues to have increasing acceptance in many parts of the American right.
Trump has aggressively pushed for redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Polling shows that presidents are becoming increasingly unpopular and that the president’s party typically loses control of the White House during midterm elections. in july said were republicans “Deserves” additional seats thanks to Trump’s success in Texas.
This occurred despite the fact that historically, redistricting occurs every decade after a census is taken.
But this effort also backfired on a large scale. California, which has non-partisan redistricting, voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 50 – which could have given the state an additional five Democratic seats – when Gov. Gavin Newsom pressed to place it on the ballot, saying that Democrats should “meet fire with fire,
Despite the success, the Justice Department sued California after Proposition 50 was passed.