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Illinois village. JB Pritzkar is rolling the red carpet for the Democratic state MPs, who fled from Texas as they push back against a step to add five Republican-controlled Congress seats in their state by President Donald Trump.
Reached Illinois on Sunday evening as a Democrat of Democrats, as a Democrat, said on Sunday evening,
The MPs fled to Texas to prevent the quorum required to vote on the new redistributed maps in the Republican Legislature on Monday, which voted for a committee in this last weekend with party lines.
Orthodox Governor of Texas vowed to remove Democrat state MPs who migrated from the post
Texas House Democratic Cocks Chair Rape. Jean Wu spoke during a news conference in Chicago, when Texas Democrats fled to the state to avoid voting on a redistribution proposal. Illinois village. JB Pritzkar, Left, Wu and other Texas MPs are called “courageous”. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Relating push in Texas is part of a comprehensive effort by GOP across the country to control home and cushion deficit across the country, as the party traditionally faces political headwinds in power and loses seats in mid -term elections.
But an experienced Republican strategist argued that the decision for the head of Illinois by most Democratic MPs – with some other people in two other blue states, New York and Massachusetts – was “cartoon dumb”.
The idea that Texas Democrats will run into Illinois, a state, where Dames has misused Germandering at comic levels, is perfection, “Tom Bevan, the co-founder and chairman of realclarypolitics, written on X.
Republican Missouri Senator Eric Skimit wrote on X, “Texas is running for ‘participation Germanding’ to participate for Texas Democrats.”
Texas Democrats ran away to block the trump-supported redistribution vote in the dramatic legislative step
Two-Term Illinois governor Pritzkar, who is seen as expected of the 2028 Democratic Party White House, has criticized Trump and Republican for “deception” as they push to redistribute of the rare mid-decade Congress.
The governor claimed, “Texas Democrats had no choice, but to leave their home state to leave their home state and protect their components. This is a righteous task of courage.”
Texas House Democrats JB Pritzkar, the Governor of Illinois, speaks about the Texas Republican Plan, which resumes the map of the house during a press conference at the Duppage County Office of the Duppage County Office in Carol Stream on Sunday, August 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Black)
But Republican pointed to the move four years ago to end the seats of two Republican Congress in the state by Pritzkar and Illinois Democrats to help the party.
Illinois, who lost one seat in the Congress due to the population change in the previous census, went to his Congress delegation from 13 Democrats and 5 Republicans to his Congress delegation.
Matt Witrock, For a long time, the GOP Communicator and experienced of the National Republican Senetorial Committee, questioned Illinois running optics from the optics of Texas Democrats, which he called “the maize of partisan gerymandering”.
Trump, Republican Texas threatens the Democrat legal war as a race to resume the Congress map
By breaking the quorum – the minimum number of MPs required to do legislative business – $ 500 and orthodox will be fined per day. The village. Greg abot On returning to Texas, he was threatened with arrest.
Trump and his political team are targeting to stop what happened during their first term at the White House, when Democrats returned to grab the majority of the House in the 4th of 2018.
“Texas will be the greatest,” The President recently told reporters, as he predicted the number of GOP-friend seats, which could be firmly connected through redistribution in the red state. “Just a simple raid, we raise five seats.”
Democrats control only 12 of the 38 Congress districts in the state, with a blue leaning seat vacant after the death of rape march. Sylvester Turner.
The GOP scheme transfers Democratic voters to a nearby GOP-inclined districts from competitive seats, and Republican takes voters to neighboring districts, currently controlling Democrats.
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Depending on the latest American census data, it is usually redistributed in the beginning of each decade. Recapture of mid-decade is unusual-but not without exemplary.
Democrats Trump and Texas are described as power as power, and swear to take legal action to prevent any changes in the current Congress map.
And in blue-dominated states, Democrats are now trying to fight with fire.
“Two can play this game,” California Gowin Gavin Newsom Recently written on social media.
Democratic village. Gavin Newsom Red-State of California is considering pushing a redistribution in his blue state to combat Republican efforts in Texas. (Paul Sinehoser – Fox News)
The next day, after a meeting, Democrats, in a California Congress delegation, said that they were on board with an ambitious plan to get at least five seats through redistribution. Democrats currently control 43 out of 52 Congress districts of Golden State.
But it will not be easy to apply change, because in California, the Congress maps are prepared by an independent commission, which should not allow the bias to affect their work.
Other heavy-populated blue states are also considering changing their maps, including Democrats- Illinois, New York and New Jersey, but have redistributed limitations in their state formation.
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Meanwhile, Ohio requires laws for redistribution this year, and a redistribution of the map in a red-shrine state can provide GOP with three and Congress seats.
And Republicans are also reducing the recitation of the mid -decade which can give GOP to a couple of household seats in red states such as Florida, Missouri and Indiana.
