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ποΈ 14 August 2025
β±οΈ 33 minutes
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In this explosive episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz and co-host Ben Ferguson dive into the dramatic return of Texas Democrats who fled the state to block redistricting legislation. Facing legal threats including arrest, fines, and potential removal from office, their return paved the way for the controversial redistricting bill to move forward.
π Key Topics Covered:
Redistricting & Gerrymandering: Cruz and Ferguson expose what they call aggressive gerrymandering tactics in Democrat-led states like California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts. They present data showing disproportionate congressional representation compared to actual vote shares.
Historical Legal Context: Cruz shares his firsthand experience from the 2003 Texas redistricting standoff, explaining the legal precedent for forcibly returning lawmakers to establish quorum.
Democratic Leadership Critique: The episode features audio clips from Governors Pritzker (IL) and Hochul (NY), highlighting what Cruz sees as hypocrisy in their criticism of Texas while benefiting from gerrymandered maps.
Beto O’Rourke’s Controversial Remarks: A clip of O’Rourke advocating for aggressive Democratic redistricting is dissected, with Cruz interpreting it as a push for partisan power consolidation.
National Political Trends: The hosts argue that Democrats are losing ground nationally due to unpopular policies and power-driven tactics, citing recent polling data on party favorability.
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0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
0:05.2 | Welcome, it is Vertiquist. |
0:06.8 | Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, with you. |
0:09.2 | And we get to start with some pretty big breaking news. |
0:12.2 | The Texas Democratic fugitives, they've conceded. |
0:16.6 | They are apparently going to return to Austin as the latest report center. This is certainly going to be |
0:22.9 | tears to many liberals that were cheering them on in sanctuary states. Now they're going to actually |
0:28.2 | have to go back to work. Well, this is news that broke this evening. The Texas Democrats who |
0:33.5 | had fled the state, the House Democrats, defeat a quorum in order to stop the redistricting in the state of Texas. They've surrendered. They've admitted defeat. They've announced that they are coming back. We're going to break that down. We're going to tell you why they're coming back. We're going to tell you about what legal authorities the governor and the Speaker of the House had and used to force them to come back. And we're also going to talk more broadly about the |
0:55.1 | issue of gerrymandering, because we have seen in the last two weeks, we have seen Democrats, |
0:59.5 | we have seen Blue State governors, we have seen the media clutching their pearls and saying |
1:04.7 | this is horrible, this is a theft of democracy. And I got to say, in the annals of hypocrisy, the Democrats' reaction to Texas's |
1:15.2 | redistricting may be at the top of the list of utter, complete, nonsense and hypocrisy. We're |
1:23.1 | going to give me the facts of what exactly Democrat states do when they draw congressional redistricts and compare |
1:30.4 | it to Republican states. And spoiler alerts, the Democrat states are much, much, much more egregious |
1:38.9 | in gerrymandering their states than Republican states ever are. We're going to give you the facts so that when you're standing around the water cooler, you're going to know the response to someone who decides to do some pearl clutching on their own. Yeah, no doubt. It's really fun. When you see the data, they may have wished they didn't go down this road in Texas. It's going to have a big impact around the country. Let me tell you real quick about it. My good friends over at Crockett Coffee, we're doing this show. It's 1146 Central 1246 a.m. I am drinking Crockett coffee right now, decaf because I want to be able to go to bed after the show. But finding great coffee is actually really hard. And that is why I love Crockett Coffee. |
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