For days, a political storm that has occurred in Texas, USA, has continued to become a nationwide hot topic that is the focus of major American media. Because the final outcome of this incident will not only directly affect Trump's presidential power, but also shake the balance of political power in the United States.

And now, Trump himself has spoken out, giving his own opinion on this storm.

According to reports from many American media outlets, the political storm in Texas (hereinafter referred to as "Texas") was triggered by the issue of district division in Texas. It is introduced that in the U.S. House of Representatives, which is extremely important in American politics, there are 38 seats representing Texas among the total of 435 representative seats. Now, the Republican forces that control the government and the state legislature of Texas want to redraw some of these 38 House seats - by splitting the districts that originally supported the Democratic Party and expanding the districts that support the Republican Party, thus greatly increasing the chances of the Republicans winning these seats.

Several American media outlets believe that the Republican redistricting plan will allow the party to gain an additional five seats in the House of Representatives.

The reason this matter is so significant is because, in the current context of increasingly polarized American politics, with the two major parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, each holding 219 and 212 seats in the House of Representatives (total of 435 seats), if the Republicans can further increase their number of seats in the House of Representatives, they can further expand their power in Congress, more effectively shift the balance of political power in the United States, and thus support the Republican president Trump in pushing the United States in the direction that the Republicans and Trump hope for in the coming years.

This is also why Trump has been very concerned about this matter. After winning the U.S. presidential election last year, he had already advised the Republican forces in Texas to take advantage of the momentum and push forward the work of redistricting to better expand the chances of Trump and the Republicans in the state.

But the problem is, although the Republicans control both houses of the Texas legislature and the state government, it is easy for them to pass the redistricting, but according to procedure, they still have to vote together with the Democratic legislators in the legislature - and Texas law also stipulates that at least two-thirds of the legislators in the state legislature must be present.

As a result, the Democratic legislators, who are in a weak position in Texas and unable to match the Republicans in voting, seized this procedural opportunity - over 50 Democratic legislators in Texas left the state en masse last Sunday, refusing to participate in the vote, hoping to sabotage the Republicans' redistricting plan procedurally.

Currently, both sides are in a deadlock. The Republican forces in power in Texas have threatened the Democratic legislators who fled, saying they must return to Texas to vote, otherwise they would be arrested and their qualifications as legislators would be revoked, not to mention fines. However, the Democratic side said they would not be accomplices in the political tactics of the Republicans seeking more political power.

On Tuesday local time, when asked about this matter, Trump also gave his clear opinion. He believed that the actions of the Republicans in Texas were justified, because in last year's presidential election, he received high support in Texas.

"We have the right to gain five more seats," Trump said.

At a press conference in the White House, when asked whether he would deploy the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to help Texas arrest the fleeing Democratic legislators, Trump said the FBI "might" get involved.

Currently, the FBI has not made any statement on this matter.

Original: Gao Lei

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