Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas mocked Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s argument that the state’s redistricting silences minority voters on Sunday during an appearance on Fox News.
Democrats in the Texas state legislature fled to Democratic-controlled states like New York and Illinois in order to thwart a GOP redistricting proposal that could net Republicans up to five seats in the House of Representatives. “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream asked Abbott about Crockett’s claims that minority voters would lose their voice as a result of the new maps, with Abbott pointing out Trump made significant gains with Hispanic voters in the state as proof that minority groups do not vote as monoliths.
“First of all, it wouldn’t be a day that ends in the letter Y if Jasmine Crockett didn’t say something racist,” Abbott told Bream. “But second, her ‘facts’ are wrong, because the facts in Texas are under the maps that we are drawing, four of the new seats will be predominantly Hispanic seats. The problem that Democrats have in the state of Texas is Hispanics, black voters and other voters, they have learned now that the ideas that Democrats stand for are contrary to the ideas that the Hispanic community and black community stand for. They all want secure borders, they don’t want men and women’s sports and they want support for law enforcement.”
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“What we are finding is these Hispanics are voting for Republicans,” Abbott continued. “We saw that very prolifically in the last presidential election when Donald Trump won all five of the seats that we’re gonna be adding. It’s a proven fact that minority voters chose to vote for Trump as well as other Republicans, but they are trapped in one of these gerrymandered districts that confines [them] only to electing a Democrat. The Democrats would say that they should be entitled to elect a certain member of a particular race, but instead let the voters of that district decide regardless of their race.”
Crockett had claimed that black, Hispanic and Asian voters would not be represented in Texas under the new maps during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC.
“Right now, African-Americans are only gonna have one fifth of the voting power they should have in the state of Texas and we know that our Latino brothers and sisters will only have one-third of the voting power, and frankly, Asians, which is one of the fastest-growing demographics in the state of Texas, have literally no power,” Crockett claimed.
Trump carried 46% of the Hispanic vote, 40% of the Asian vote and 13% of the black vote in 2024, according to CNN’s exit poll. In 2020, Trump carried 32% of Hispanic voters, 34% of Asian voters and 12% of black voters, according to CNN’s exit poll.
By comparison, in CNN’s 2016 exit poll, Trump only received 28% of the Hispanic vote, 27% of the Asian vote and 8% of the black vote.
“They’re gonna find that Democrats are going to lose voters and Republicans will be picking up voters,” Abbott predicted.
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