Fox News host Jesse Watters warned that Republicans will never win the White House again if Texas stays blue after Democrats swept the state’s statewide races.
On his show Thursday night, Watters said the midterm results were no ordinary setback and put Texas at the center of the party’s long-term survival. The Hill reported his remarks the next day.
Democrats won every statewide race on the ballot in Texas on Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz remains the only Republican still holding statewide office there.
Watters framed that outcome as a warning shot for the GOP’s path to the presidency.
"Now, if Texas stays blue, a Republican will never sniff the White House ever again."
He tied the losses in part to the candidates on the ballot, naming Ken Paxton in Texas and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi among those who drew blame.
Watters rejected the idea that this was a routine midterm correction. He said Democrats were “on pace for the biggest midterm landslide since Watergate” and argued the scale looked different from the setbacks former President Obama faced in 2010 and 2014.
"This wasn’t your standard midterm thumping."
He added that Obama’s midterm races were closer and that Obama did not nearly lose the Black vote the way Republicans nearly lost the white vote on Tuesday.
Watters also claimed Democrats were “on the cusp of winning a majority of whites, Blacks and Hispanics,” and said open borders amount to political suicide for the GOP. He pointed to a looming Democratic Senate pickup in Mississippi and compared it to Republicans winning Hawaii.
During the monologue, Watters showed a video of a Texas Democratic lawmaker discussing minority voters joining into a majority bloc. He said Texas Democratic politicians were “declaring a political race war” and that Republicans nearly lost the white vote.
"They want it extinguished. They’re already talking about abolishing the Electoral College, impeaching the president, and executing Elon Musk. Democrat governors now control a majority of states where most of the population lives."
The Hill noted that no Democratic elected official has called for the execution of Musk. Watters’ broader claims about talk of abolishing the Electoral College and impeaching the president were presented as his on-air assertions, not as documented actions.
Cruz’s status as the last Republican statewide officeholder in Texas was the concrete marker Watters used to press the stakes. If the Lone Star State locks in as blue, he argued, the presidential map closes on the GOP for good.
Voters and party leaders now have a clear choice: rebuild a ticket and a coalition that can compete in Texas, or watch the White House path shrink with every cycle.
