After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic leader Gene Wu needed a means to project his voice — and viewpoints — to a national audience. So he tapped his campaign account to buy a microphone for news conferences.

President Donald Trump said the FBI “may have to” get involved to potentially arrest the Texas Democrats who refuse to grant their state’s Republicans a quorum for a redistricting vote. Texas House Democrats have taken refuge in blue states such as Illinois,

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin criticized President Donald Trump’s comments that Republicans are “entitled” to redraw Texas’s congressional map to add five red seats. “No party is entitled to any district,” Martin said at a news conference Tuesday with Texas Democratic lawmakers who are trying to block the plan.