TEXAS, USA — Some Texas lawmakers spoke in California alongside California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and others about GOP-led redistricting efforts in Texas and a responding redistricting effort in heavily-Democratic California.
More than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday to deny Republicans a quorum and delay their efforts to approve new congressional maps. . California officials are floating the prospect of their own potential redistricting effort if Texas moves forward with its redistricting.
Pelosi had pointed words for Texas Republicans and the redistricting effort.
"The Republicans are acting because they have bankruptcy of ideas. They have no winning ideas to present to the American peopl