The fight over Texas’s congressional map “could literally last years,” Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday, while defending his call to arrest Texas Democrats who fled the state to stall the GOP’s redistricting efforts.

Texas Democrats are preventing the Texas House from achieving the quorum necessary to move ahead with legislative business in the state Legislature. They are trying to run out the clock on Republicans’ special legislative session and draw attention to their cause, even as they are unlikely to stop the redraw because Abbott can keep calling more special sessions.

Speaking to “Fox News Sunday,” Abbott threatened to do so repeatedly until the GOP gets its way.

“I’m authorized to call a special session every 30 days,” Abbott said. “As soon as this one is over, I’m

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