Dem Rep Goes On Unhinged Rant About ‘New White Seats’ In Texas Dur­ing Hear­ing

Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep. Jas­mine Crock­ett of Texas unleashed a racial­ly tinged rant about redis­trict­ing in Texas dur­ing a Thurs­day hear­ing on the cen­sus.

Texas gained two seats in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives as a result of the 2020 Cen­sus, which result­ed in a re-draw­ing of the state’s con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts. Crock­ett asked Cen­sus Bureau Direc­tor Robert L. San­tos if he knew the racial com­po­si­tion of the increase in Texas’ pop­u­la­tion dur­ing a hear­ing held by the House Over­sight Com­mit­tee. (RELATED: Dem Rep Claims ‘Domes­tic Ter­ror­ism’ Is ‘Afoot’ In Spring­field Because Of Trump, Vance State­ments About Haitians)

“I want to make sure that we — we real­ly get to the nit­ty-grit­ty on Texas, because this is — this is hilar­i­ous to me,” Crock­ett said. “Texas added two seats in 2020 accord­ing to the cen­sus — and we know that there was a sig­nif­i­cant under­count, specif­i­cal­ly in Texas for a com­bi­na­tion of rea­sons. But we know that specif­i­cal­ly Texas added 4 mil­lion peo­ple. Of those 4 mil­lion peo­ple do you want to take a guess at how many were Ang­los? Just a guess.”

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San­tos respond­ed by say­ing he assumed it was a major­i­ty, prompt­ing Crockett’s tirade about the state’s redis­trict­ing process.

“180,000, that’s it, of 4 mil­lion, 95 per­cent of the peo­ple that were added, and we know that when it comes to minor­i­ty pop­u­la­tions, they tend to be under­count­ed,” Crock­ett claimed. “So get this, we added 4 mil­lion peo­ple they were peo­ple of col­or, Texas got two new seats. So they took those black and brown and Asian bod­ies and guess what? Do you think that we got a new black, brown or Asian seat?”

“Some­how the way that they do their Repub­li­can math in the state of Texas, that amount­ed to 2 new white seats,” Crock­ett con­tin­ued. “Guess what? White Repub­li­can seats. We got two new Repub­li­can seats out of 4 mil­lion peo­ple of col­or. So let — let me tell you, they — they love to use our bod­ies to — to appor­tion us in an inac­cu­rate way.”

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump car­ried sev­er­al heav­i­ly-His­pan­ic coun­ties dur­ing the 2024 elec­tion after gain­ing sup­port among both His­pan­ic and black vot­ers, large­ly due to the econ­o­my and immi­gra­tion.

Crock­ett has gone off the rails in pre­vi­ous hear­ings. Dur­ing a Nov. 20 House Over­sight Com­mit­tee hear­ing, she claimed black peo­ple were “stolen” and “didn’t ask” to be in the Unit­ed States. Crock­ett also claimed a Repub­li­can wit­ness feared lis­ten­ing to a “qual­i­fied black woman” like Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris dur­ing a Sep­tem­ber hear­ing held by the House Over­sight Com­mit­tee.

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