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Trump’s Texas Power Grab

Trump’s Texas Power Grab

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In a dramatic act of protest on Sunday, Democratic members of the
Texas House of Representatives began to flee the state. It is a
last-ditch attempt to stop President Trump and Texas Republicans
from adopting an aggressively redrawn congressional map that
would eliminate Democratic seats — and could help lock in a
Republican majority in next year’s elections.

Shane Goldmacher, a Times political correspondent, explains this
new chapter in the era of unvarnished partisan warfare.

Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a political
correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading:

The redrawn map, unveiled by Texas Republicans and pushed by
Mr. Trump, puts areas of Houston, Dallas and San Antonio that
have incumbent Democrats into districts that would now favor
Republicans.

“We’re leaving Texas to fight for Texans,” Gene Wu, a state
representative from Houston and the chair of the Democratic
caucus in the Texas House, said in a statement Sunday.

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