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Jasmine Crockett: “I knew that my district, which is a VRA district, a section…”

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

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And, you know, when it came down to it, I said, let me tell you something. I personally believe that people should know their district. And I knew that my district, which is a VRA district, a section 2 district that they just, you know, obliterated in the Supreme Court, meant that it was a black district. Okay. The way that these districts were created historically is historically, you had to have 50% of the citizen voting age population be a specific race for it to be … (1:00:40–1:00:53)

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Asserts that her district was a VRA section 2 district, which was affected by a Supreme Court decision.

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