Texas Democrat lawmakers fled the state over the weekend to avoid voting on a redistricting map that could pave the way for more Republican-controlled seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The new map was due to be voted on Monday, but the Texas House lacked a quorum without the missing Democrats.
Those absent were lauded as heroes by other Democrats around the country for refusing to vote on an “intentionally racist” redistricting map.
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“This is what fighting for our democracy looks like,” the Democrat governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said on X.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) was quick to shut the governor down and criticize the Texas lawmakers who abandoned their posts.
“The millions of men and women who have risked their lives for this country by running TOWARDS the battlefield would disagree,” Tuberville said in response to Newsom. “This isn’t fighting for democracy. This is running like cowards.”
The Texas Democrats pulled a similar move in July 2021 when they left for Washington, D.C., to protest voting security legislation, Fox News reported.
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