Evening Edition: Texas Dems Flee State To Avoid Redistricting Vote

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Dozens of Texas House Democrats have fled the state in an attempt to avoid or prevent a vote in the state legislature that would push forward a GOP redistricting effort. Redrawing the congressional maps in Texas is a President Trump-led effort to net Republicans up to five new US House seats in next year’s midterm elections. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to arrest and expel the House Democrats if they do not return by today. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Hans A. von Spakovsky, Manager of Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, who says the Governor and the Texas Attorney General can take action to force their return to finalize the vote. 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 Will Kane.
0:00.9	I'm Dana Perino.
0:01.9	I'm Greg Gerard.
0:03.0	And this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.7	Monday, August 4th, 2025.
0:11.7	I'm Eben Brown.
0:13.3	Can Texas make its lawmakers make laws when they don't want?
0:17.6	What happens if they run away to another state?
0:20.6	What's anti-democratic is to not take into account all of the new residents of the state
0:27.1	who have moved in into Texas in the past five years and were not included in the boundary
0:33.8	lines that were drawn up back in 2021.
0:40.9	This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition.
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1:15.6	The Texas State Legislature is looking forward to adopting new maps for congressional districts in the state.
1:22.2	It's a bit out of the ordinary to redraw congressional maps partway through a decade. It's usually done just after the usual
1:29.6	taking and tabulating of a census. The Constitution mandates that every 10 years, and we do them at
1:36.1	the start of each decade. But there are no rules stopping one political party in control of a state
1:41.8	legislature from crafting districts to benefit that party,
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