At least one Texas Republican is blaming his own party for not getting ahead of Democrats who skipped town on Sunday to prevent a vote on new congressional districts. Dozens of state House lawmakers fled to Illinois,

Redistricting typically occurs once per decade in each state following the census. But Texas Republicans broke that tradition last week by proposing a new map mid-decade after Trump pushed them to redraw the state’s congressional districts so that the GOP would be more likely to win more seats in the midterm elections next year.