Gavin Jackson

So some of them were even getting updates during that debate.

And around that time, lawmakers faced a couple of procedural votes in the Senate to get the redistricting bill passed.

to a vote, and it lost.

Yeah, well, on a procedural vote, over a third of the Republicans in the Senate, 14 of them, voted with the Democrats to effectively kill a bill that would have changed the maps.

It's been a whirlwind three weeks here with redistricting going from not being on anyone's radar to dominating the final days of the legislative session.

The push was briefly stopped in the Senate, which prompted Governor Henry McMaster to call a special session to take up a new map.

And he's been saying that Trump needs to keep a Republican Congress to carry out his agenda.

Now, a handful of prominent Senate Republicans continue to push back against this process that went into Memorial Day weekend.

So it's been busy.

And this all came to a head yesterday.

That was the first day of early voting for the primaries.

And Democrats were urging people to go to the polls.

And more than 30,000 votes have been cast already.

as lawmakers were meeting.

So some of them were even getting updates during that debate.

And around that time, lawmakers faced a couple of procedural votes in the Senate to get the redistricting bill to a vote, and it lost.

Yeah, again, they talked about the time crunch with the primary starting.

Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, a Republican, was outspoken against this from the beginning, and he raised constitutional concerns and said that the plan could backfire on Republicans by motivating Democrats and independent voters.

Here he is Tuesday.

Yeah, senators here really pride themselves on being deliberative and not letting Washington tell them what to do.