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An Indiana Senate committee on Monday voted to advance new congressional maps designed to allow Republicans to sweep all nine of the state’s congressional districts in next year’s midterm elections, setting the stage for the decisive vote in the full Senate later this week.

What’s not yet clear is whether enough Republicans support the new map to pass it and send it to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk to be signed into law.

Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, who has previously insisted Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass new maps in the chamber they control 40-10, was far less definitive on Monday, as he laid out the timeline for a week of consideration that he said will likely culminate in a vote Thursday.

“We’re all going to find out together on Thursday,” he told reporters. “People are having a conversation about it. Senators know there’s going to be a chance to vote on it. So, we’ll see Thursday where we are.”

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Indiana Senate committee advances new congressional maps, setting up full Senate vote this week
From CNN’s Eric Bradner
A display of the 2025 draft Congressional map at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Monday.
A display of the 2025 draft Congressional map at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Monday. Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
An Indiana Senate committee on Monday voted to advance new congressional maps designed to allow Republicans to sweep all nine of the state’s congressional districts in next year’s midterm elections, setting the stage for the decisive vote in the full Senate later this week.

What’s not yet clear is whether enough Republicans support the new map to pass it and send it to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk to be signed into law.

Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, who has previously insisted Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass new maps in the chamber they control 40-10, was far less definitive on Monday, as he laid out the timeline for a week of consideration that he said will likely culminate in a vote Thursday.

“We’re all going to find out together on Thursday,” he told reporters. “People are having a conversation about it. Senators know there’s going to be a chance to vote on it. So, we’ll see Thursday where we are.”

President Donald Trump and his allies, including the Club for Growth and Turning Point USA, have led a weekslong pressure campaign aimed at convincing reluctant institutionalists in the state Senate to make Indiana the latest state to redraw its maps to boost the GOP’s chances of holding its slim House majority next year.

Some background: Currently, Republicans hold seven of Indiana’s nine US House seats. The new maps would overhaul the district represented by Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan in northwestern Indiana, and would slice the Indianapolis-based district of Democratic Rep. Andre Carson into pieces contained in four separate districts.

If the Senate rejects the maps, it would be a huge political black eye for Trump — one that would reflect the limits of his ability to bend the party to his will at the state and national levels. Some conservative senators have said their constituents are overwhelmingly opposed to mid-decade redistricting.