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Verdict with Ted Cruz

Texas Dems Surrender-Explaining Dem Redistricting Hypocrisy Nationwide

Verdict with Ted Cruz

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Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.542.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

  1. Texas Democrats' Return

    • Fled to avoid redistricting legislation.
    • Faced legal pressure: potential arrest, fines, and threats of office vacancy.
    • Ultimately returned, allowing the redistricting bill to proceed.
  2. Redistricting & Gerrymandering

    • Cruz and Ferguson claim Democratic states like California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts are far more aggressive in gerrymandering than Republican states.
    • They cite statistics showing disproportionate representation in Congress compared to actual vote percentages.
  3. Historical Context

    • Cruz recounts his experience as Texas Solicitor General during a similar 2003 redistricting standoff.
    • Legal precedent allows for forcible return of lawmakers to establish quorum.
  4. Criticism of Democratic Leaders

    • Governors of Democrat-led states are accused of hypocrisy for criticizing Texas while benefiting from gerrymandered maps.
    • Audio clips and quotes from figures like Governor Pritzker (IL) and Governor Hochul (NY) are used to highlight perceived contradictions.
  5. Beto O’Rourke’s Remarks

    • A clip of Beto O’Rourke is played where he advocates for aggressive Democratic redistricting, which Cruz interprets as a call for partisan power grabs.
  6. Broader Political Commentary

    • The hosts argue that Democrats are losing favor nationally due to unpopular policies and power-driven tactics.
    • They cite polling data showing low favorability for the Democratic Party.

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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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