Texas Attorney General displays advanced understanding of the Justice Department Voting Section’s partisan personnel:
Abbott pinpointed the administration’s long-term goal in taking Texas to court: Turning Texas into a Democrat state. He said the Obama administration is “using legal tools to achieve political ends, and we’re just not going to tolerate it.” He cited the fact that despite Democrat claims that voter ID and the state’s districting maps hurt Hispanics, the state elected five Hispanic Republicans just from 2010 forward.
“This has electoral college math all over it,” Abbott said, “because they realize that if they can get Texas’ electoral college votes, then Democrats will win presidential elections forever more.”