It was a desperate escape on chartered jets. Texas lawmakers fled their state with a message: The US political system is nearing a meltdown. | Analysis by CNN's StCollinson
Texas state lawmakers, enacting an intricately plotted escape, left their posts and the Lone Star state itself and took flight to Washington on Monday on an extraordinary mission to halt Republican restrictive voting bills built on former President Donald Trump's fraud lies.After stepping off two chartered jets, they insisted they planned to stay until a highly unlikely scenario unfolds in which moderate Democratic senators kill filibuster rules used by the GOP to block voting rights reform.
Democrats are accusing Abbott of rushing through voting measures -- and a raft of other controversial legislation, including a ban on the teaching of critical race theory in schools -- to boost his own reelection race next year among Republican voters and potentially a presidential run in 2024.
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