Redistricting news. Indiana State Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray said he’d bring the chamber back into session Dec. 8 to “make a final decision that week on any redistricting proposal sent from the House.”
Bray and other state senators have been vocally opposed to President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the Hoosier State map to help eliminate Indiana’s two House Democrats, Reps. André Carson and Frank Mrvan.
The Indiana House will likely pass the redistricting proposal. Bray seems to realize he can’t ignore it. There will be tremendous pressure on Indiana Senate Republicans to pass the map.
Senate news: We obtained a DSCC memo focused on hitting Senate GOP candidates over cost-of-living concerns. The memo links rising prices over Thanksgiving to tariffs. Read it here.
The Campaign. Two new ads are airing in the Nashville media market in the pricey race to replace former Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.).
Matt Van Epps, the Republican, has a new spot in which he says that “radicals” shot at him in Afghanistan. “So these radical attacks now? Piece of cake,” Van Epps says. The ad also features a snippet of Democrat Aftyn Behn saying that she is a “very radical person.”
“Tennessee can’t afford [Democrats’] radical agenda,” the narrator says in the ad.
Behn has her own spot up, in which she takes a whack at Republicans’ inability to control prices.
“Worried about prices? Worried about health care costs? Feeling burned by tariffs?” Behn says in the ad. “Then December 2 is your day to shake up Washington.”
The election is Dec. 2.
