Indiana Senate Republicans say they do not have votes to pass mid-cycle redistricting despite a pressure campaign from the White House, according to a spokesperson for Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray – but President Donald Trump’s allies are still demanding the matter comes up for a vote in a special session.

“The votes aren’t there for redistricting,” said Molly Swigart, Bray’s spokesperson.

The news comes just days after Trump held a phone call with reluctant members of the caucus.

POLITICO spoke to four people close to the sensitive talks, all of whom were granted anonymity to discuss the issue. Indiana state Senate Republicans’ latest move threatens to upend what has been a nationwide push from the White House to force red states to redraw maps ahead of the midterms.

Three of those people said Indiana Gov. Mike Braun was inclined to call a special session to redo the state’s maps— a move that could come as early as next week. A spokesperson for Braun did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

They said the White House conducted a dial-in poll of lawmakers that revealed the majority of Senate Republicans backed mid-cycle redistricting. But one of the Republicans cautioned that colleagues were confused by the instructions for the survey because the administration did not provide guidance on how to move forward.

Two of those Republicans briefed on the poll said the White House believed the poll showed the majority of the holdout caucus supports mid-cycle redistricting. But they said that Bray and his leadership team represent the majority of no-votes.

“If Bray would personally release his leadership to support this, there would be enough votes for this to pass,” one of those people said.

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A person close to the White House, who was granted anonymity to discuss the pressure campaign, disputed that the votes weren’t there.

The „White House has a private whip count from individual calls, expects it will have the votes as it already does in the House, and it expects it to be put up for a vote,” the person said.

Indiana House Republicans are more broadly supportive of the plan after caucusing Tuesday, and emerged from those talks last night with enough votes to move forward with redistricting if a special session is called, according to a third Republican briefed on the matter.

Allies to the White House, such as Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), have warned control of the House rests on whether Indiana can produce two additional Republican-held congressional districts by re-doing the maps.

Trump allies, including Turning Point Action and the late Charlie Kirk, have threatened primaries for Hoosier holdouts who do not back Trump’s mid-cycle redistricting plan.

“Now the real fun begins,” Chris LaCivita, Trump’s former 2024 campaign manager, posted to X after POLITICO first reported news the state Senate said they did not have the votes.

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