Jasmine Crockett Shreds Trump Over Texas Redistricting Plan And His 'Bootleg' Birthday Parade

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During a press conference on Wednesday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) spoke about a proposal to redistrict Texas's congressional maps.

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00:00Yep.

00:02I want to say, especially

00:04for representative Crockett.

00:06Can you feel a little bit

00:08about what you're hearing

00:10about Democrats when you do

00:12take the power of this, who

00:14referred to it. And I know

00:16you don't know what everybody

00:18else is doing, but can you

00:20talk a little bit about how

00:22the Democratic Party might

00:24counter this? Well, I mean,

00:26there's a lot of strategies

00:28that can be employed. Obviously

00:29they actually broke quorum

00:31that was even smaller than

00:33this. I mean, obviously it

00:35was a very big deal. And one

00:37of the things that I did not

00:39iterate in my comments is that

00:41we've talked a lot about how

00:43we all know that everything's

00:45bigger in Texas, but I want to

00:47be clear that this is bigger

00:49than Texas. All right. And one

00:51of the things that we did not

00:53talk about is the fact that

00:55whoever is the speaker, which

00:57it needs to be, Hakeem Jeffries,

00:59is more than Texas. This is why

01:01I am asking if there are other

01:03governors that are willing to

01:05do this because this is about

01:07our democracy. This isn't about

01:09any singular seat right here,

01:11because we don't own these

01:12seats anyway. These seats

01:13belong to the people. But when

01:14we think about the fact that

01:15they are openly saying, oh yeah,

01:16there's ways to have a third

01:17term. Well, let me tell you,

01:19they can nominate whoever they

01:20want to with the Republican

01:21rules, but we're going to

01:22follow the Constitution up in

01:23here if we are the ones that

01:24actually have the gavels. So

01:26this is one of the reasons

01:27that I am asking for

01:28everybody to use whatever

01:29tools they have in their

01:30toolbox. It was the house

01:31that broke quorum when we

01:32were in the state house. But

01:33obviously the Senate, they

01:35could also break quorum. We

01:36know that they did that back

01:37in 2003 in the state of

01:39Texas. We also know that

01:41there are donors that I'm

01:43sure are going to be willing

01:45to make sure that they are

01:46investing and making sure that

01:47they can take down some of

01:48these candidates since they

01:50don't want to rule out dark

01:51money. We will I'm sure some

01:53dark money going pour in on

01:55the behalf of the American

01:57people. So what I am saying

01:58is every tactic as well as

02:00making sure we're touching

02:01people. I will spend a lot of

02:03time in the state of Texas. I

02:05have traveled this country,

02:06but I am going to be boots

02:07on the ground informing Texans

02:09because listen to this. When

02:11we had our Senate election

02:12against that one senator that

02:13I'm not a fan of, Cruz, Beto

02:16lost by three points. Beto

02:17in that particular election,

02:19we only had a 17% voter turnout.

02:22We only need to turn out

02:24people in Texas. That is why

02:25they are so pressed to

02:26suppress their votes. So if

02:28we turn out, imagine what

02:29it looks like if 25% of

02:31registered voters turn out.

02:32So let me be clear, just

02:34like on his little birthday,

02:36he had his bootleg parade

02:37that cost the American people

02:38close to $50 million for free.

02:40More people showed up around

02:42this country to protest him.

02:44We are going to do the same

02:46things. We're going to hit them

02:48polls and we're going to hit

02:49them hard. Absolutely.

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