Evening Edition: Texas AG Paxton Takes Action To Remove Absent Democrats

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It is the third day Texas Democrats have been absent from the state legislature stopping all voting on various bills including a plan to redistrict the state. Republicans say they have legal efforts going on to remove dozens of Democrats from office for being derelict of their duties. In the latest move, Governor Abbott wants to see the removal of state House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Gene Wu, one of the Democrats that fled to Chicago to avoid the vote.. Fox's John Saucier speaks to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who says there are possible legal paths to removing Democrats from office if they don't fulfill their duties, and then speaks about his bid for Senate and his thoughts on FEMA aid. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Charlie Hurt.
0:00.9	I'm Ainsley Your Heart.
0:01.8	I'm Charles Payne and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.0	Wednesday, August 6th, 2025.
0:11.2	I'm John Sossier.
0:12.7	The battle over congressional maps in Texas has been a big political focus this week
0:17.0	after Democratic state legislators left town and left the state,
0:21.7	all in an effort to block the debate beginning on this issue. Republicans in Texas would like to redraw some of the
0:26.3	maps of congressional districts in a move they say reflects the will of the voters as seen
0:30.6	during the presidential election last year. Democrats, though, call this illegal gerrymandering.
0:35.1	It's a joke for these people, these governors to criticize Texas that doesn't even come
0:40.8	close to the gerrymandering that these states have done.
0:44.0	And the hypocrisy is, is overwhelming.
0:47.0	I'm shocked that they can even utter it.
0:49.3	This is the Fox News Rundown, evening edition.
0:56.1	Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy host of the Trey Gatti podcast.
0:59.2	I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together
1:03.5	and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side.
1:07.4	Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com.
1:12.8	The Trump administration is threatening to prosecute the Texas Democratic state lawmakers who fled the Lone Star State to try and block a
1:17.4	Republican-led effort to draw new congressional maps. Speaking on the Fox News Channel,
1:21.9	Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin says the Texas Republican plan is illegal.
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