President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the FBI may need to intervene and help bring back the Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the state in a coordinated stunt to block GOP-backed redistricting legislation.
“They may have to. They may have to,” Trump told reporters when asked if federal law enforcement should assist in returning the rogue Democrats. “No, I know they want them back, not only the attorney general, the governor wants them back. If you look, I mean, the governor of Texas is demanding they come back. So, a lot of people are demanding they come back.”
Trump also called out the optics of the lawmakers’ decision to flee Texas altogether, instead choosing to seek refuge in deep-blue states. “It’s a bad look,” he said, referring to their travel to liberal strongholds like Illinois and New York. “You can’t just sit it out, you have to go back. You have to fight it out. That’s what elections are all about.”
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