A catalyst for this was a court decision from the Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals last year that said that coalition districts were no longer required. When you couple that with the facts from the last presidential election, it showed that Counties that are predominantly Hispanic that historically had in the past voted for Democrats, this time voted Republican for Donald Trump as well as other Republicans. So we have new facts and new law that allow us to redraw these lines in ways that these voters and these districts, they're not trapped in a Democrat congressional district. (02:11–02:22)
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Asserts that predominantly Hispanic counties in Texas voted Republican in the last presidential election.
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