The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood joined Charles Payne on Fox News‘s Your World to discuss inflation and Texas‘s voting future.
“[Inflation is at] about 4% nationally. In 2017, when Donald Trump was president, it was at about 4%,” Westwood told Payne.
“We didn’t have this inflation problem. So to isolate that and say people getting back to work is causing inflation doesn’t make any sense. Politically, Democrats have been searching for some sort of scapegoat to blame inflation on,” she said, adding that “they haven’t found one yet.”
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When asked if Texas going blue, as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicted it will, Westwood told Payne, “Democrats have been hoping that demographics is destiny for years now — that as minorities grow as a share of the U.S. population that more Democratic voters will grow as well and eradicate Republicans just by default. That has not turned out to be the case.”
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“The last census showed that the share of the Hispanic population in Texas grew significantly over the last decade, but the share of the Democratic voters did not match that, and in fact, Hispanics are leaving the Democratic Party in droves,” she added.
