US politics live: ‘Felons': Democrat politicians threatened with arrest
A battle is brewing in Texas over a Donald Trump backed plan designed to skew the state even more Republican.
Democrat politicians have fled the state in a desperate attempt to stop a vote on a new map of Texas electoral districts which could give Mr Trump's party more seats and therefore more power in Congress.
But Texas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott has demanded the Democrats return or he will expel them from the legislatures. He's even said some could be 'felons' and arrested.
Donald Trump has doubled down on his claim that July's new jobs number were 'rigged' in order to put him in a bad light.
He sacked the official in charge of the figures after they showed fewer jobs than expected were created in the US. While there have been adjustments to jobs figures after publication, there is no evidence of wrongdoing.
Donald Trump is once again railing at Taylor Swift.
Meanwhile the US president has gone on a social media rant about his claims of the perils of being 'woke' after a small furore over a jeans ad featuring Sydney Sweeney. Mr Trump has now decided that he, single-handedly, destroyed Taylor Swift's popularity. That's despite her being immensely popular.
'Look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying … that I can't stand her (HATE!), she was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT.
'The tide has seriously turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be.'
Swift is the world's second richest music artist with a net worth of $US1.6 billion.
Read on for more updates.
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