CNN’s Mattingly on Dems Not Cooperating in Texas Redistricting: They ‘Don’t Plan on Coming Back’

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MATTINGLY: “I think what’s most interesting to me, and I think this actually threads into the grand ideas that Isaac is going to lay out shortly, which will be brilliant, is the ramp — the ramping up of the escalatory ladder. I mean, even the one Democrat called petty that Ed was just laying out. I don’t necessarily see the end game to it at this point in time, which I do think threads directly into the national implications of this. You know, these type of thing has happened in the past. Democrats stay out for that special session, and then they come back, and then kind of things move forward. My kind of sense of it based on the past was that, look, at some point this is going to happen, Democrats are going to have to come back and deal with this reality. And the bigger question is, what do Democrats in blue states end up doing here. But I’m starting to get the sense that, one, Republicans clearly don’t plan on stopping this effort. Democrats clearly don’t plan on coming back. And I’m not sure Democrats can come back as long as Democrats are — as long as Republicans are pursuing this pathway because of the moment they are in and because of how big this has gotten across the nation.”