Texas state Rep. Gene Wu joined a private strategy call on Thursday with Democratic leaders from other GOP-led states that might also redraw their maps.

The Texas Senate is debating the controversial GOP redistricting bill that triggered a weeks-long House standoff.The Republican-backed proposal, which passed the House in an 88-52 party-line vote on Wednesday,

California Democrats landed their counterpunch to Texas on Thursday, just a day after Texas Republicans advanced their redrawn map that had come at the urging of President Donald Trump with the aim of padding their House majority by five seats.

Greg Abbott on Aug. 21 that Trump and his allies hope will give them a strategic advantage in holding on to their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the fight in Austin has spread beyond the state's borders and created significant uncertainty about who will be in position to govern during the second half of the Trump administration and after the next race for the White House.

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics