Actual answer involves looking at the timeline of getting the legislation through the courts before it affects the election.
"We had to come home for the legal battle," Plesa told Morning Edition. "Our election experts told us that we, too, are on tight deadlines to make sure that these maps make it in the courts and they're litigated on." https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506179/texas-redistricting-plan-democrats-walkout
What talking about predict? That was a weekly staple of his first term.