The following is the transcript of the interview with Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Oct. 25, 2026.
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We turn now to the Texas governor's race and Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa.
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She joins us from Austin.
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So, if you win, you would be the first Democratic governor and the first female governor in over 30 years.
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You're running in a state, though, that has more Republicans than Democrats.
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So, what is your message to get Republicans to cross over and vote for you?
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Well, right now, nobody wants politics as usual.
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Most of us see that it is broken, and so what we are seeing in Texas is because there is deep disappointment in both political parties, people are forging a new way for- forward.
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The data centers are a physical manifestation of a governor, Governor Abbott, and a government that's working for the moneyed interests and leaving the people of Texas to fend for themselves.
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Public schools are another issue where there has been a bipartisan coming together in support of our public schools.
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And so, listen, this creates an opportunity for Texans to evaluate the candidate.
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I believe that's why we have now six or seven polls out of the last six weeks that show us winning.
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All polls show us within the margin of error.
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Enthusiasm is high on our side, so we feel really good about where we are.
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You mentioned schools.
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I was surprised to see that 181 school districts in Texas are operating just four days a week.
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Some schools have shut down.
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How much of this is people just moving to more populated areas out of the rural ones, and how much of it is funding?
HINOJOSA:
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Greg Abbott in 2023 withheld funding our schools needed because we didn't pass vouchers.
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He said he would withhold it if we didn't pass it, and we did it.
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We fought it. Myself- myself and James Talarico led that fight to stop school vouchers.
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He passed it last year.
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That took a billion dollars from our neighborhood public schools to take and put into unaccountable private schools.
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And so, school districts are really struggling.
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Our schools are shutting down.
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Teachers have left.
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And you should know that public schools are part of our identity as Texans.
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They are enshrined in our Texas Constitution, as being essential to our liberties, they are the largest employer in most or many of our counties.
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They are Friday Night Lights, and so there is bipartisan anger about what Greg Abbott has done to our public schools.
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And listen, I'm running my broad agendas to secure the American Dream, and public schools are essential- are an essential part of the American dream because they provide the gateway and the opportunity to the American dream.
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So saving Texas public schools is a key part of my agenda, and that's why this campaign has resonated amongst Texans.
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You've been campaigning on the issue of Texas having the highest uninsured rate and the highest number of uninsured children in this country.
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If you win, you're still going to have a Republican-controlled legislature.
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You're likely to have a Republican lieutenant governor.
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How do you work with them to improve health care?
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Well, I'll tell you that my agenda is not a Democratic agenda, it is a popular, populist agenda, one that delivers for the people of Texas.
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So my healthcare policy and platform and plan is to ensure every Texas child has quality healthcare because we have the most uninsured children of any state in America.
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We're one of the few states that hasn't expanded Medicaid.
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Expanding Medicaid is one way to get there.
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Democrats of the past have run on expanding Medicaid, I am not because most people don't understand what that means.
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