Jasmine Crockett’s Racist Redistricting Claims Get Fact Checked by Greg Abbott [WATCH]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded Sunday to Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett’s claims that the state’s new redistricting maps would silence minority voters, pointing to recent Republican gains among Hispanic, Black, and Asian voters as evidence to the contrary.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream, Abbott addressed remarks Crockett made a day earlier on MSNBC, where she argued the GOP proposal would strip minority communities of political influence.

Democrats in the Texas Legislature have left the state for Democratic strongholds such as New York and Illinois in an effort to block the Republican-backed redistricting plan, which analysts say could result in the GOP gaining as many as five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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“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.”

Abbott said GOP outreach has increasingly resonated with minority voters in recent election cycles.

“What we are finding is these Hispanics are voting for Republicans,” Abbott said.

“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.”

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On Saturday, Crockett told MSNBC that the redistricting maps would sharply reduce the voting strength of minority groups in Texas.

“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 said.

Exit polls from CNN show that in the 2024 presidential election, Trump carried 46% of the Hispanic vote, 40% of the Asian vote, and 13% of the Black vote in Texas.

In 2020, Trump won 32% of Hispanic voters, 34% of Asian voters, and 12% of Black voters.

By comparison, in 2016, Trump 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 said.

The redistricting plan remains a point of contention in Texas politics, with both parties preparing for potential legal challenges and continuing to make competing appeals to minority communities ahead of future elections.