ABC News’ Zohreen Shah reports from Austin, Texas, where Democratic lawmakers left the state for Washington, D.C., to try to push for federal voting rights legislation.
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Austin doesn't represent Texan view. ABC is blatantly shameless for this biased reporting.
As a Texan voter, I’m annoyed.
If conservatives did this the left would be kicking and screaming…. which is still what democrats are doing anyway.
I would like to ask what are these lawmakers doing on a plane without mask potentially spreading covid to everyone in Washington DC. It was funny after Trump had a rally in Tulsa Oklahoma the leftist all were screaming super spreader super spreader. Not a word about these Texas Democrats. Oh and by the way you leave the state to deprive the Texas government of a quorum to try to get rid of the filibuster in Washington DC you all are the biggest Hypocrites I've ever seen I hope the moment you set foot back in Texas or cups put on your ass drag onto the Texas senate floor enforced to vote.
Texas is a right to work replace them
You Texas demorats are a joke fleeing away like actual rats!🤣😂
I’m from Texas. I’m NOT from Austin. Those Democrats have destroyed Austin. It’s really disgusting. The rest of us want them arrested and prosecuted. Don’t let the media fool you! We don’t like cowards!
Genetic mutants fleeing responsibility.
Now 3 testing positive for COVID.
Massless on plane? Hmmm.
the fact that Americans are buying ammo faster than it can be made is proof of how we are reacting, to everything.
anyone against this bill either hasnt read it and believes the lies or just wants the cheating to continue
How are people reacting? Look at your like to dislike ratio hahaha 🤣
Funny how the democrats are pushing for what they call voter rights BUT run from their right to vote, not to mention doing their job. YEP that's typical democrats alright. Hypocritical idiots that do not want to work.🤣🤣🤣
Huh, there are people that are proud of politicians running away like children to avoid their responsibilities? How noble. If you can't win, then cheat, right? If you can't provide specific issues with the bill, then it's best to just run away rather than provide arguments to back up your claim. I would have hoped there were Democrats with moral fiber to stand up for their convictions in Texas (and in the rest of the US government), but I can see this was just wishful thinking. There appears to be no honorable people in politics. You politicians make me sick.
They aren’t getting paid anyway as the governor vetoed the section funding the legislature. The governor can’t fire them or appoint temporary replacements. The governor will keep calling special sessions and can have the brought back by the police to the legislature if they are in Texas. Unless Congress passes new voting right bills, the republican controlled states will keep passing ever greater voting restrictions.
Real Texans are Behind the Dems.
"How Texans are Reacting"….ABC asks Californians who just moved to Texas last month. How bout you have the galls to ask actual Texans. You asked like…3 people…in AUSTIN?? We don't claim Austin.
Could those senators leaving Texas be classified as abandoning or vacating their seats and call for an emergence election? Any other job you walk off and refuse to do your work is grounds to be fired. I thought the Dems claim to be for bipartisan, not running from something they don’t like. Plus most of the restrictive votes are in Dem run states.
Real Texans fight to the death for their beliefs, as proven at the Alamo. They do not run and hide like this bunch of buffoons has done.
DEMS our cowards' and a little more than a few pieces of crap!!!!!!!
The overwhelming majority of citizens in Texas support voter ID and election security. That's just a fact. Its sad to see democrats once again subverting the democratic process when it doesn't go their way.
‘’I’m taking my ball and going home.’’
Annoying crybaby bullshit as usual by the Democrats when they don’t get their way.
Dems have not shame, anymore.
I’m sure you are all wondering the same thing I’m wondering… How many adderall does Biden take a day?
It's funny when you say you're standing up for democracy? That is an oxymoron because your whole state everybody in it wants this bill to be passed the people that voted for you want this bill passed that is not democracy when you flee at your state and hold up important things that need to be taken care of and have a temper tantrum spend taxpayers money to fly to DC on a private jet how is that democracy when the people that voted you in want this bill passed that is not democracy you people are lost in this world you need to wake up democracy is listening to your people and doing what your people want you to do not your own little Marxist agenda
But Republicans are the threat to Democracy 😂 fucking wild
vote the democrats out your tax dollars there spending wake up America
I can never again vote Democrat…..You done lost me, maybe forever.
Not news, just more liberal drivel. Talk to the people in the small towns and rural Texas. That's the real Texas, where we have integrity and fortitude. The Democrats that left are childish and embarrassing and do not reflect the people of Texas.
If you're not willing to do the research then you shouldn't be commenting..It's easier to vote in Georgia than Colorado..Why don't you read the voting laws in Georgia and Texas and then compare it to New York or Colorado…THESE PEOPLE ARE LYING TO YOU BUT THEY KNOW YOU ARENT GOING TO READ THE VOTING LAWS OR DO AN OUNCE OF RESEARCH…DUMBED DOWN AMERICA AT ITS BEST
Let the putzes stay in DC, we don't need them back!
Thank you Texas Democrats!!!!!!
Is this the game plan to allow all the illegals crossing the border into Texas to vote with no ID?
Doesn’t matter that most of the popular vote is democratic lol which means most Texans are wanting this just because we have a full republican house doesn’t mean Texans want what republicans are trying to do .. and protecting people’s right to vote no… allowing more time at the polls shouldn’t be denied to people because they have to work … so yes that is restricted voting for most young adults, students and the working person.. if we wanna restrict voting wait till the republicans stop married women from voting … because it’s getting close to that kind of talk …
They are cowards period.
Get back to work.
Stay in Washington with the swamp…
I heard some of the most dense people happen to reside in Texas and their Governor validates this claim.
Should hold their paychecks, and make them have to come back and get them like Walker did in WI when democrats fled to Illinois.
Hang them for being assholes who think they are somehow more entitled to life and resources than others.
This is how stupid Democrats are they think it makes him look good buy doing what they did in Texas nobody likes that not even Democrat people just shows you how radical they are
Good let em leave
Perhaps the uninformed Texans who have commented below need some facts …..Watergate was a Republican attempt to cheat in an election …….the 2018 9th Congressional district election in N.Car required a do-over because a longtime REPUBLICAN operator engaged in a vote harvesting scheme so egregious it required a new election ……The only 3 votes cast in Pa. , for dead folk , this last election ,,,,were ALL for Trump …..The reality is , and has ALWAYS been …..is that the verified cases of election cheating has almost ALWAYS been by REPUBLICANS ..So bleat on …….your whining is music to our ears …
What we have here is a prime opportunity to round up all of the Communist Criminals and Ghettø Tråsh in the State of Texas and put them all where they belong… in places like GITMO or maybe just send them to Cuba where they seem to want to live so much or maybe Venezuela… but anyway they got to go! 😡
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