By Melanie Arter | July 14, 2021 | 7:56pm EDT Former Texas Governor Rick Perry gives his final speech to the Texas legislature. (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - Fox News host Pete Hegseth took Texas State Rep. James Talarico to task on Tuesday for fleeing the state with other Democratic lawmakers to thwart Republican efforts to pass a voter law requiring voters to show I.D. to vote. Talarico told “Fox News Primetime” that when former President Donald Trump “lost the election, he told Republicans across the country that he didn't lose the election, and this caused Republican legislators in state capitols from Georgia to Austin to start putting forward bills that would make it harder to vote, and actually, Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the whole country.”