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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Why Texas’s redistricting fight is mostly about next year’s Republican Senate slugfest

Earlier this week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) called on FBI Director Kash Patel to track down Democrats in the State House of Representatives who fled to blue states to break quorum.

Texas Democrats fled to places like California, New York and Illinois after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session at the behest of Donald Trump to redraw Texas’s congressional maps in the middle of the decade to give Republicans give more seats.

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