California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday urged Illinois and New York to press ahead with redistricting efforts as GOP lawmakers push to pick up five additional House seats in Texas.
“Right now forget the talking; it’s not about press. It’s time to move. You got to move. I mean, enough,” Newsom said.
“We’re all saying the right thing. Now we got to do the right thing, which means we got to fight fire with fire,” he told Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic representative from Texas, during the Tuesday episode of his “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast.
The two also criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for advocating for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state in an effort to block a vote advancing redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State. The Democratic state lawmakers who left are preventing the Texas Legislature from having the quorum necessary to pass legislation.
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