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The last few days has been building drama, which is going to affect California, potentially.

And Texas, the governor, Greg Abbott, wants the congressional districts redrawn.

Normally, they're redrawn every 10 years after the census.

But Abbott wanted it redrawn now.

And after they drew new lines, he hopes it leads to more Republican congresspeople coming from Texas next year.

So the Republicans crafted together a plan and the Democrats in the legislature in Texas said no.

And they took off.

They took off for Illinois and denied the Republicans a quorum.

And now Abbott is threatening to have them all arrested and to kick them all out of office.

Supposedly he's got the power to remove them from office for abandonment.

Now, how this affects California is Newsom wants to do the same thing in this state

to ensure that there's almost all Democrats from California going to Congress and few or no

Republicans in retaliation. So let's get Ben Siegel on, the ABC News Deputy Director, Deputy Political Director in Washington.

Ben, how are you?

I'm doing well. Thanks for the surprise promotion.

Right. I'm sorry about that.

Deputy Director, yeah.

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