Pritzker offers a shelter to the legislators in Texas who block the Republican Party.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is putting the red carpet of the legislators in the democratic state who fled Texas as they are backing from a step by President Donald Trump to add five seats in the Republican congressions in their state.

“I will do my best to make sure they are welcome here, and that they have the ability to stay as long as they needed,” said Pritzker, a Democrat on Sunday evening when the legislators reached Illinois.

The lawmakers fled from Texas to prevent the required legal quorum in the legislative body of the state, which is dominated by Republicans to vote on Monday on maps of re -dividing the new circles, which were issued in the voting committee at the end of last week along the party lines.

The governor of Texas pledges to remove legislators fleeing from the state of Democrats from his post

The batch of re -dividing the circles in Texas is part of a broader effort by the Republican Party throughout the country to maintain the control of the House of Representatives and the pillows elsewhere in the country, where the party in power traditionally faces the political opposite winds and loses seats in the medium renewal elections.

But veteran Republican strategists argued that most Democratic lawmakers’ decision to go to Illinois – with a few others in two other blue, New York and Massachusetts – was “stupid caricature”.

“The idea that the Democrats in Texas will flee to Illinois, a country in which the Democrats who offended them have offended comic levels is perfection,” wrote Tom Bevan, co -founder of the President and President at Realclearsics, wrote.

“Party” protesting from the Democrats in Texas to … Illinois, “Republican Senator Missouri Eric Skyt wrote on X.” You cannot compensate. “

Democrats in Texas escape from the state to prevent Trump -backed voting in a dramatic legislative step

Pritzkker, the governor of Illinois for a period of time, has criticized that it is possible at the White House in the White House 2028, Trump and the Republicans due to “cheating” while they were pushing to renovate the rare Congress in the middle of the decade.

“The Democrats in Texas have left without a choice but to leave their parent state to prevent a vote from attending and protecting their voters. This is a good work of good,” the ruler claimed.

But Republicans refer to this step four years ago by Pritzker and Illinois Democrats to eliminate two Republican seats in Congress in the state, to help strengthen the party.

Illinois, who lost a seat in Congress due to the changes in the population in the last census, moved from 13 democratic and 5 Republicans to 14 democratic and 3 Republicans in the Congress delegation.

Matt Whitch, The Republican Party has long been questioned and an old warrior in the National Union’s National Committee, the Optics of the Democrats in Texas, who flee to Illinois, which was called “Mecca Makkah Party Party”.

Trump, Republicans are competing to re -draw the map of Congress in Texas, where Democrats threaten the legal warfare

By breaking the quorum – the minimum number of legislators needed to conduct legislative work – the deserted Democrats will be fined $ 500 a day and the governor. Ruler of Greg Abbott He threatened them with arrest upon their return to Texas.

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House, when Democrats stormed the seizure of the majority of the House of Representatives in the middle of the period 2018.

The president told reporters recently: “Texas will be the largest,” as the number of friendly seats for the Republican Party that can be added by re -dividing the circles in the red state reliably expected. “Just a simple redrawing, we pick up five seats.”

Democrats control 12 out of 38 provinces in Congress in the state, with a blue seat after death in March by Representative Sylvester Turner.

The Republican Party plan transmits the democratic voters from competitive seats to areas close to the Republican Party, and the Republican voters moved to the currently controlled areas that are currently controlled by Democrats.

Dan Patrick, both of them from Trump’s allies, said that they need to repeat the Torah because of the constitutional concerns raised by the Ministry of Justice on a handful of regions dominated by minorities.

Circles are usually redistricted at the beginning of each contract, based on the latest US census data. The re-division of circles in the middle of the contract is uncommon-but not without a precedent.

Democrats, Republican Trump and Takas, are frankly, as they describe as power seizure, and pledged legal measures to prevent any transformation in the current Congress maps.

Democrats in Blue -dominated states are trying to fight fire with fire.

“Two can play this game,” California Gavin New Ruler He wrote on social media recently.

The next day, after a meeting, the Democrats at the California delegation said they were on the plane with an ambitious plan to try to get at least five seats by re -dividing the circles. Democrats currently control 43 Golden State County in Congress.

But it will not be easy to age change, because in California, Congress maps are drawn by an independent committee that is not supposed to let the partisan affect their work.

Democrats are considering in other populated blue states – including Illinois, New York and New Jersey, who are also considering making changes on their maps, but they have re -expanded their borders stipulated in the state constitutions.

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Meanwhile, Ohio is required by law to re -divide it this year, and it can re -draw maps in the country with red tendencies to supply the Republican Party by up to three other seats in Congress.

Republicans also study the re -division of circles in the middle of the contract, which may give the Republican Party a few other seats in the red states such as Florida, Missouri and Indiana.