(8 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++SOME SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sacramento, California – 8 August 2025
1. Democrats officials waiting for the briefing to start
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Ann Johnson, (D) Texas:
"Last week, Texas Republicans in their effort to try to appease the entitlement of Donald Trump have tried to steal five congressional seats from the voters of Texas."
3. Reporters during the press briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Ann Johnson, (D) Texas:
"Not only do they want to take out five congressional seats and steal them, they now want to take out the representatives that are actually standing up against them, attempting to rig the next election cycle – duly elected representatives out of Texas that have elected us to be here today to break quorum per our constitution, because we know the majority is going off the rails."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, (D) Los Angeles:
"And right now, California has a responsibility to our democracy. What is happening in Texas, what is being pushed out by the Trump administration and beyond Texas is something we thought we would never see, where people’s lives, the representation, their participation is willingly stifled, violently stifled, and plans that did not include public opinion, that did not include public participation and had a pure political goal. – and that goal was to consolidate power for this authoritarian in the White House."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, (D) California:
"The President has paved over the rose garden. He’s paved over freedom of speech, he’s draped over freedom of education. The list goes on and on. Independent judiciary, rule of law. Pave it over. Pave it over. But we all not let – he’s gone too far. We will not let him pave over a free and fair elections in our country, starting with what he’s trying to do in Texas."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Gavin Newsom, (D) California:
"It’s not about lines, about drawing a line. And it’s all about elevating a deeper consciousness of the line that Donald Trump continues to cross. It’s not about him playing by a different set of rules. There are no rules for Donald Trump. This is serious moment in American history."
++BLACK FRAMES++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Gavin Newsom, (D) California:
"They will lose in the midterms. He knows it. Why else would he make that phone call? His agenda is failing. This presidency is failing. He knows the headwinds in a midterm, he’s dialing for seats."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Speaker Robert Rivas, (D) California:
"Once these maps are released, voters will have the opportunity to digest these maps and review them for weeks and months leading to this election."
10. Democrats leaving after press briefing
STORYLINE:
The Texas House of Representatives failed to meet a quorum on Friday for the third time this week as Democratic lawmakers continued their walkout to block a vote on congressional voting maps sought by President Donald Trump in a widening national battle over redistricting.
Republicans had warned they would escalate efforts to end the nearly weeklong holdout if defiant Democrats do not return to the state Capitol. But the Democrats who bolted for points across the country on Aug. 3 still were not back for Friday’s scheduled House floor vote.
The state constitution requires at least 100 members present for the 150-member House to do business, and Republicans hold an 88-62 majority in the chamber. Only 95 lawmakers were counted as present.
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