Hello, I'm Adam Wren.

And I'm Jake Trailer. It's Monday, August 4th.

And this is the Playbook podcast. This morning, I have the pleasure of welcoming Politico

White House reporter Jake Trailer back to the show. Jake, thanks for joining us.

Yeah, of course. Happy to be here, Adam.

Without further ado, here's what's driving the day. First up, everything's bigger in Texas,

including it turns out, the size and scope of the Democratic revolt. Yesterday, dozens of

Democratic state legislators fled the Lone Star State in an attempt to deny the quorum that Republicans need

in order to pass a new partisan gerrymander ahead of 26 elections. Today, you can find them in,

among other places, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. So essentially, late last night,

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker finished up a press conference

with Texas Democrats who were in DePage County, Illinois, the suburban part of Chicago.

And essentially, he appeared in front of a campaign banner that said J.B. Pritzker.com

appeared to want to make it very clear that he is the 2028 hopeful who's shielding Texas

Democrats from Donald Trump in case he didn't pick that up here on the subtext. And essentially,

he is helping them get shelter, get housing. Of course, his family is of the billionaire family

that owns the Hyatt hotel chain. But this is the second time

since 2021 that Texas Democrats have fled the state. Back then, they did it for an elections bill.

And now they're doing it to try to avoid mid-cycle redistricting. Jake, this was all precipitated by

President Donald Trump when he decided to wait into this

and force Texas Governor Greg Abbott to do this redistricting in order to help Republicans in the midterms.

Has Trump sort of bitten off more than he can chew here?

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