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Two more Texas Democrats test positive for COVID-19 ahead of 2nd week in D.C. push for voting bills
The state lawmakers will attend a five-day conference to push for federal voting bills this week.
Texas State Rep. Carl Sherman and colleagues speaks during the Good Trouble Candlelight Vigil for Democracy supporting voting rights, at Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington, Saturday, July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)(Jose Luis Magana)
Updated at 8:28 p.m. with new information throughout.
WASHINGTON Two more of the Democrats who fled Texas last week to prevent the Legislature from passing Republican-backed voting bills have tested positive for COVID-19.
2 more Texas House Democratic Caucus members test positive for COVID-19, bringing total to 5
By FOX 4 Staff article
Photo tweeted by State Rep. James Talarico (D - Round Rock) of House Democrats before boarding flights out of Texas on Monday, July 12, 2021.
Two more fully vaccinated members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, who are in Washington D.C., have tested positive for COVID-19.
That brings the total number of members who have tested positive for the coronavirus to five. All of those how have tested positive are feeling good, with no symptoms or only mild symptoms.
Two More Fully Vaccinated Texas House Democrats Test Positive for COVID-19
On 7/18/21 at 9:45 PM EDT
Two more fully vaccinated Texas House Democrats tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday after traveling to Washington D.C. last week, bringing the total number of cases to five, according to the caucus.
The Texas House Democratic Caucus announced that two additional members tested positive late Sunday. After three tested positive Saturday, the caucus said that all members and staff who flew to D.C. would be provided daily rapid tests. As part of this precautionary testing, today two additional Members who were fully vaccinated tested positive, the caucus said in a statement, adding that all of the HDC Members who tested positive are feeling good, with no symptoms or only mild symptoms.
Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) blasted Rep. Mo Brooks
Brooks, an Alabama Senate candidate, shared an article regarding the three Texas Democrats who tested positive and said in a tweet on Saturday, “Someone above has a great sense of irony & humor! Hypocritical #Texas legislators, ALL #Socialist #Democrats, fly to Washington DC MASKLESS (horror of horrors). Who knew!!?? Now, three test positive for COVID-19! Anyone else unable to chuckle?” he wrote.
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Jones called Brooks’s comments “a low point.”
“There are thousands of folks who think Covid is a hoax or refuse to get vaccinated who get get sick or die from the virus. But no one makes fun or chuckles or ‘takes delight in the irony’ when they do. This is a low point even for someone who help instigate an insurrection,” the former senator said, quote-tweeting an article by AL.com about Brooks’s comments.