Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Friday that the Democrat legislators in his state who fled to avoid a vote on redistricting could lose important posts in the legislature for their actions.

Texas Democrats on Thursday announced that they would return to the Lone Star State if Texas Republicans agree to end the special session to redraw the state’s congressional district map and if California releases a new district map.

Gonzales, a member of the House Homeland Security and Appropriations Committees, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” in an interview Friday morning that the legislators will return, adding “What’s a little comical is they … sent these demands from Chicago and New York and other places. Cowards do not flee.”

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