Gavin Jackson

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Up First from NPR · Texas Primary Results, South Carolina Rejects Redistricting, Iran Deal Whiplash · 27 May 2026 podcast

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.

Then you factor in expected lawsuits, costs of delaying the primaries.

And some of them said it wasn't so much a rebuke to Trump as a reality check.

So aren't they worried about that there?

There was definitely an undertone in the House where all 124 members were up for re-election, but that was different in the Senate because they're not up for another two years, so they're not too concerned about that.

Now, some Republicans said that they were worried that redistricting could have made these seats that are safe now more competitive.

And the governor said that he was disappointed, but that he would not be calling lawmakers back again.

Yeah, that's another state that took up redistricting after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in April, and they're going for one seat like they did in South Carolina.

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