Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to remove 10 Democratic districts from Texas if California makes good on its threat to remove five Republican districts from its maps, the latest salvo in the deepening fight between the two states over the Lone Star State's redistricting efforts.
"If California tries to gerrymander five more districts; listen, Texas has the ability to eliminate 10 Democrats in our state," the Republican governor told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview Monday.
"We can play that game more than they can, because they have fewer Republican districts in their state."
The threat comes as Texas state Democrats have fled their home state to Democratic strongholds such as Illinois and other states to prevent Republicans from passing controversial redistricting maps that give the GOP five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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