President Donald Trump, is seen pointing as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump and his political team are aiming to pad the GOP's razor-thin House majority to keep control of the chamber in next year's midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
Trump is trying to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections.
Texas was the first Republican-controlled state to pass rare but not-unheard-of mid-decade congressional redistricting, although a ruling by two federal judges threatens to overturn the redrawn map. Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have also drawn new maps as part of the president's push.
Indiana, where McIntosh served three terms as a congressman 25 years ago, is the latest battlefield in the high-stakes redistricting showdown pitting Trump and Republicans versus Democrats to shape the 2026 midterm landscape in the fight for the House majority.
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"Democrats for years have gerrymandered and Republicans have not, and now it's time so we can have Republicans in Congress for states like my home state of Indiana, step up to the plate, draw the district, so Republicans can be represented," McIntosh argued.
Trump has threatened to back primary challenges against Republican state lawmakers in Indiana who are reluctant to pass redistricting.
"I was delighted to see President Trump calling them to do it. And you know, he said, we're going to start endorsing against you if you don't do what's right for the Republican Party and for the nation. Club for Growth will be there to back up his endorsements," McIntosh said.
And the Club's political arm, the Club for Growth Action super PAC, which is one of the biggest spenders in Republican primary showdowns thanks to the support of top-dollar conservative donors, is running ads to support the president's push in right-leaning states across the country.
"We're way over seven figures when you put together all the different states. And what we're doing is running ads. We have a new ad today that talks about the need for redistricting," McIntosh revealed. "We have a program that brings constituent calls into the Senate members, and so they get to hear directly from their voters that they want them to do this."
It's not just redistricting.
The Club is spending seven figures in next week's hotly contested special election for a Republican-controlled vacant House seat in a solidly red congressional district in Tennessee.
Then-former President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Club for Growth president David McIntosh, as Trump speaks at the group's annual donor retreat, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, on March 1, 2024. (Club For Growth)
McIntosh and the Club have had an up-and-down relationship with the president. They opposed Trump as he ran for the White House in 2016 before embracing him as an ally. In the 2022 cycle, Trump and the Club teamed up in some high-profile GOP primaries but clashed over combustible Senate nomination battles in Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Club was on the outs with Trump as the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race got underway. Trump repeatedly criticized McIntosh and the Club, referring to them as "The Club for NO Growth," and claimed they were "an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers."
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However, Trump and McIntosh made peace in early 2024, with Trump saying as he was wrapping up the GOP presidential nomination, that they were "back in love" after the protracted falling out.
Asked about the Club's relationship with Trump, McIntosh said, "We're right there with the President, especially in these races ... Club for Growth is very aligned with President Trump, and we're especially in these contested races, we're going to help him win."
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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