Texas Gov. Candidate Gina Hinojosa Says She’s Not Intimidated by Elon Musk

Whataburger is my stuff. Have you had it? Whataburger iced tea? So, we just had it. Have you had the iced tea? Oh, I had like Coca-Cola actually. No, you need to try the iced tea. Can I try it to be yours? Yeah, go for it. Are you serious? That's crazy. Oh, some fans! You got... That's... Wait, that was... That's ridiculous. Why are you... I'm not going to do it. That was so... I know, I know. Do you see what you just freaking did? get you another no no it's not another straw no no no that was insane what a tea am i right how is it it's really nice it's really nice you know so listen last night i was with your opponent at the governor mansion oh yeah and it occurred to me i was like this could be this could be your new home when trump went into the white house he ripped it all apart put in all this gold stuff so say you become next governor what would be your plans to maybe change things around um we know i don't like all sorts of things but i will say that my son asked how much space there is and whether you could put a baseball net up in the backyard okay a baseball net like so that when he hits it doesn't leave the property oh okay that's kind of an elite thing to have, I like that your son's already making friends, what are you gonna do with the place? Look, you're right, it's hard on kids, like there's no kid asked for this, so he entertains himself with thoughts of what's my new home, you know what you haven't got any personal ideas, you're gonna put up new wallpaper or take something out, you know, I don't know, I'm just gonna be happy to clean slate, fresh start the whole thing, the whole state yeah, yeah, but I'm like really impressed you got a moment with the governor because he refuses to debate me, he refuses to have public events where people can ask questions so the fact that you got an audience with the governor, that's like that's a big deal, yeah, yeah, he also like big donors or something, no, far from, yeah actually we kind of got peer pressured into drinking a beer but that was kind of a different whole other situation and I peer pressured you, yeah no, no, he's he's gonna get in trouble, no, no, hey I wanted to ask you, um, Elon Musk, you know probably the biggest sort of celebrity, I guess associated with the state, um, he's obviously like supporting the Republicans hard this midterms, if you became governor how do you like get over the contentious relationship you've got so that you can work with the richest man in the world, like the Ellisons are versing California right now, you don't want Musk versing Texas, right? Look, I'm happy to work with whoever and that's my record but i don't work for them and that's the difference between me and Greg Abbott right there is a story that broke last night that Greg Abbott is trying to sell our beach to Elon Musk our beach like our beach oh in Brownsville you're talking about yeah like the Boca Chica Beach State Park to Elon Musk our beaches that are protected in our state constitution as being free and open to the public like our beach right like that's the difference and so um it'll be a giant difference though to be clear but people are just tired of government being about the special interests the moneyed interest the donors and that's why our campaign's resonating because people want change they want a leader who's actually going to work for them yeah i mean i mean kind of going off what Charlie said though it's like say you become governor and then Musk just goes on a tirade it's like you know what we're moving everything out of Texas like that might really worry people i mean he employs a lot of people who live here nobody wants to leave Texas like we're where it's that so I'm not nervous about that as Texans we know our worth and um he's lucky to be here frankly oh lucky to be here okay one last thing I was actually I was watching the news last night and I had like a slideshow of Democrats talking about Elon Musk basically I want to ask you do you think Elon Musk is a genius or do you think he's like a good businessman who employs geniuses I don't even know what he is frankly I don't know I haven't given that thought I don't know the man it's hard for me to say I don't have an opinion on that one way or the other actually this is you being very careful no no I know like I just don't want him taking our beach like whether he's genius smart I don't care I just don't want him taking our beach I don't want him taking all our taxpayer dollars Greg Abbott's given him like over a billion in tax breaks like it's just enough this is the richest man in the world he doesn't need our taxpayer dollars right and like that's the broken system that I'm running against I don't know.