Democrats in the state House of Representatives walked out of the chamber Sunday night, creating a lack of quorum on the last full day of the legislative session.
The procedural move killed debate and voting on Senate Bill 7, the bill Republicans hoped would reform election law.
Gov. Greg Abbott says he will call a special session to handle the legislation that didn't pass in the regular session. the state legislature only meets every other year in Texas.
Abbott's announced primary challenger, former State Sen. Don Huffines, urged him to do so, and placed the blame for SB 7's failure squarely on his shoulders.
"A critical Bill like this can only fail in a republican-led chamber when there is failure of leadership from the governor of Texas," Huffines said, in a statement posted on Twitter.
Democrats, from local state party officials to Pres. Biden in Washington, viciously attacked the bill as "wrong and un-American," in the days leading up to the walk out, calling it a "voter suppression bill."
Meanwhile, Abbott is likely to get another challenger when state Ariculture Commissioner Sid Miller announces a bid for governor in the coming weeks. Miller has been loudly critical of Abbott's performance in office.
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