Hillary Clinton greets voters during a February campaign rally in Houston. | AP Photo Clinton predicts she could win Texas in November

Hillary Clinton thinks she can be bigger than Donald Trump in Texas, expressing confidence during an interview with New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister that she could turn the red state blue for the first time in 40 years.

The former secretary of state exclaimed “Texas!” when asked what states she thought Trump would put in play for her come November.


“You are not going to win Texas,” Traister shot back, according to an article published Monday evening headlined “Hillary Clinton vs. Herself.”

“If black and Latino voters come out and vote, we could win Texas,” Hillary Clinton told Traister.

Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat to win Texas, which he did in 1976 by a 3-point margin over incumbent President Gerald Ford. With the exception of 1992 and 1996, when Bill Clinton ran for president and subsequently reelection, Republicans have carried the state by double-digit margins.