JD Vance accused of “congressional shoplifting” for rezoning push

Democratic lawmakers from Texas and Indiana Legislatures slammed Republican relegation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, an Indiana lawmaker accuses vice president of JD Vance “Participate in congressional shopping.”

Members held a press conference Chicago On Wednesday, protests against ongoing efforts in Texas to pass a redivision bill that could provide Republicans with five congressional seats.

During the event, Texas Rep. Gene Wu, chairman of the Democratic Caucus in Texas, said Escape from the country To deny the Texas House vote quorum, his caucus “stops racist, unconstitutional and illegally planned efforts.”

He said the AWOL Democrats also “stop DC swamps from deciding who we are going to vote for.”

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This is the governor of Texas Greg Abbott Authorities in other countries have called for arrest and removal of Democratic lawmakers who have disappeared from the state and have caused legislative progress in the state House to get into trouble. The Texas House passed the Texas Senate Tuesday in the Texas Senate due to the missing Democrats, but still couldn’t pass the redivision bill.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Democratic lawmakers who receive funds to assist Exodus may face it, Abbott said in an interview with Fox News Digital Felony bribery fees.

Now, several Democrats are reportedly planning to return to the state as Abbott calls for a second special legislative session to pass a redistricting bill.

Nevertheless, Democrats assert that their efforts have been successful.

“I’m so happy to be here today because over the past week we’ve heard from California, we’ve heard from New York, we’ve heard from Illinois, people are ready to stand up. People are ready to fight back.”

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Texas Democrats stood next to Illinois lawmakers on August 4, 2025, opposing the redistribution measures proposed by the Republican Party in Texas. (Fox News)

Wu called on more people to join the effort and take “more aggressive actions” to fight the Republican Party.

“We can’t do it alone; it’s not a struggle where we can maintain and win on our own,” Wu said. “What we need is that we need more people to join us. We need more states to help us, we need more people to say we will start taking more aggressive actions and we will defend.”

Wu continued that if Texas and other red countries are “decided to do this,” then “other states will make sure that nothing they do and we will be ineffective in their actions.”

“We will make it meaningless for them to attack our democracy,” he said.

In response, Abbott spokesman Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News numbers that “Democrats fundamentally misunderstand Texans.”

“Texans want their elected leaders to go to work, and Democrats refuse to do so,” Mahalles said. “Voters, especially Hispanic Texans, increasingly abandon Democrats, should be able to vote for candidates who better align with their values. Ultimately, candidates win merits, not maps. If Democrats have any hope of winning the election, they need to change the platform. Escape their platform. The solution to escape is not a solution, it is a Turks in turn.”

In this controversy, Vance also called on the Red Country to fight his so-called “active” Democrats in blue countries such as California, New York and Illinois.

Talk to Maria Bartiromo on Fox News”Futures on Sunday morning“We’re just trying to rebalance the scales and be frankly against the very unfair system that Democrats have created. ”

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Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Metal Factory in Canton, Ohio on Monday, July 28, 2025 (Maddie McGarvey/the New York Tia the New York Tia tia pool, Pool)

Vance said Democrats have been in the game for many years, under the president’s leadership Donald TrumpThe leadership, Republicans finally made an attack.

“It’s so unfair,” he said. Illegal immigration It is included in the total population and is used to determine how many seats each state receives in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He added: “The only real way to fight it is to re-dividate in some ways, like these hard blue countries do.”

On Wednesday, Indiana Rep. Ed Delaney, a Democrat in the majority Republican legislature, accused Vance of “congressional shopping.”

“I think I’m serious about it, this guy is doing congressional shoplifting, and I’ll say it again. That’s what he’s doing.”

“I never thought the Vice President of the United States would come to my state to ask our lawmakers to shop in a congressional district like this, steal them from the shelves, run out outside and waving them in front of the country. We can’t do that.”

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (L) and Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (R) addressed reporters at a press conference held on August 3, 2025 at Dupage County Democtation Protimate Headquarters in Carol Stream, Illinois, while listening to Gene Wu, the chairman of the Democratic caucus in Texas. Wu left the state earlier today with a group of Democratic lawmakers, so it was impossible to reach a quorum at a special meeting to re-dividate the country. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Delaney asserted that “the game of this game is the gerrymandering of the ceremony” creates a danger of “mutual respect from our country, Texas and other state legislatures.”

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He went on to say, “What would happen if these idiots got their wishes, if they lost one of these five Congress games? Oh my goodness, let’s rezoning again next year. That has to stop.”

He went on to say that the Texas Democrats are “the ones who are trying to stop it.” I added, “I know how hard it is, but we need to support them and stand with them. Otherwise, our people will be affected by the ever-changing regions, and none of them are represented.”

Fox News Digital also commented to Vance’s office, but did not hear it immediately.

Taylor Penley of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.