{"id":122750,"date":"2025-08-06T04:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122750\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:59:10","slug":"texas-democrats-in-chicago-speak-with-our-yami-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122750\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas democrats in Chicago speak with our Yami Virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 More than 50 Texas Democrats who left the state to prevent a vote on a redistricting bill have until Friday to return, according to House Speaker Dustin Burrows. <\/p>\n<p>If they fail to return by the deadline, Attorney General Ken Paxton said he will declare their seats vacant.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has called for the FBI to be involved in locating and arresting the lawmakers. He stated that Republicans &#8220;deserve&#8221; to redraw the Texas electoral map and are &#8220;entitled to five more seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox San Antonio&#8217;s Yami Virgin, currently in Chicago, spoke with some of the lawmakers who left Texas to break quorum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 More than 50 Texas Democrats who left the state to prevent a vote on a redistricting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,960,7033,3230,18703,22204,7202,7203,202,358,277,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-122750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-lawmakers","12":"tag-quorum","13":"tag-redistricting","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-seats","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-trump","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114980058926772214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}