Texas Democratic Home member Jasmine Crockett didn’t maintain again on Monday whereas discussing the state’s governor and his occasion’s new gerrymandering scheme.
Republicans in Texas try to redraw the state’s federal congressional districts, to be able to eradicate 5 districts at present represented by Democrats. The plan is particularly to stop Democrats from retaking congress subsequent yr even when nearly all of American voters reject Republicans within the 2026 midterms, which in the intervening time seems very doubtless given how unpopular GOP insurance policies are.
Texas Republicans did this identical mid-decade gerrymandering scheme in 2003 for precisely the identical causes. Identical to then, Democratic state representatives have fled the state to be able to stop a legislative quorum in order that Republicans can’t go the redistricting invoice. So it’s that on Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on Jake Tapper’s CNN present, the place amongst different issues he stated these Democrats are weaklings, cowardly and “anti-Texan.”
Later, Tapper had Crockett on the present, the place he requested her about Abbott’s feedback,
“The one weakling on this equation is the governor himself. It’s not Texans that elected the governor to the governor’s mansion that requested him to do that. It’s the felony that’s at present serving within the White Home that begs for him to do that,” Crockett stated. “So let me let you know one thing. I can assure you that Gene Wu’s district has not referred to as in and stated that he’s not representing them or their voices. The truth is, it’s simply the alternative.”
Crockett added, “I do know that my governor might not have practiced regulation too just lately, however I wish to inform him, if he cares to know, that our Texas Structure particularly gives for with the ability to break quorum. That’s in our structure. So so far as I’m involved, these of us that determined that they had been going to interrupt quorum are extra Texan and extra American than the governor and the President himself.”
Watch the clip of her remarks beneath:
