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Jasmine Crockett: “I don't believe that I actually would have a seat in…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Jasmine Crockett Fires Back After Explosive Confrontation In Congress

Published | Video Starts at 03:55

But this is the daughter of the President that signed the Civil Rights act of 1964. She was also there when he signed the Voting Rights act of 1965. And to be perfectly honest, without that voting rights, I don't believe that I actually would have a seat in Congress [without the Voting Rights Act]. And so I do believe in preserving the fact that everyone should be entitled to real and true representation because I do have a Section 2 seat as our Voting Rights act has been decimated. (03:55–04:02)

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Asserts that the Voting Rights Act enabled her to have a seat in Congress.

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