Most Texas House Democrats remain out of the state, depriving the Legislature of its ability to pass new congressional maps and other GOP priorities.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Republicans were “entitled to five more seats” in Texas, in one of his first public comments on the state’s new proposed congressional map.

American democracy is “hanging by a thread”, US representative Jasmine Crockett has warned. As her fellow Democrats fled Texas in an effort to prevent Republicans approving a new congressional map, which is likely to give them more seats in the US congress,