On Monday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) announced that she was going to run for the Senate in the upcoming election for the seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
All of her social media fans went wild, loving the video she put out on her channels, saying they are going to turn Texas blue this time.
Well, the rest of Crockett's party is not so sure, especially since Democrat state Rep. James Talarico (TX-50) is already crushing it in polling and fundraising.
Crockett came out of the gates firing, stating, "I'm done with going along to get along, and it gets us nowhere.”
I found that rather amusing since she has literally done nothing of significance since entering Congress other than growing her social media following. And if we listen to the little birds in her office, that appears to be more important to her than anything else.
After she filed to run, Talarico stated, "We're building a movement in Texas -- fueled by record-breaking grassroots fundraising and 10,000 volunteers who are putting in the work to defeat the billionaire mega-donors and puppet politicians who have taken over our state. Our movement is rooted in unity over division -- so we welcome Congresswoman Crockett into this race."
He will regret those words because she is going to come at him with both barrels and make this primary race about gender and race. And anyone supporting Talarico over her will be accused of being sexist, racist, or both.
As I noted above, Crockett is an in-your-face personality, and the facts mean little to her, as she has proven time and again in her attacks against ICE, her misleading use of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and her attempts to tangle with Trump.
Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, believes this primary race will be ugly, and I agree.
He stated, “I think no matter how it comes about, and no matter how the tone of the candidates proceeds, there’s going to be a pretty vicious fight to determine the winner.”
Rottinghaus continued, “The fact that both these candidates can raise significant money and have got a pretty hefty national profile means that this won’t just be a Texas fight, it’ll be a national fight. So that definitely means that you’re going to see a different tenor for how the primary is going to unfold.”
I am sure Crockett thought that, considering her huge national profile, congressional Democrats would rally behind her in her effort to flip a Texas Senate seat, but so far, everyone has been rather coy in how they are answering questions about whom they will support.
For instance, more than a dozen Democrats in the Senate outright avoided answering the question. When Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was asked about Crockett's run, he responded, “I don’t have any sort of thoughts on it,” which is very telling since he attended a big rally in August with Crockett.
Sen. Chris Val Hollen (D-MD) was similarly cool on Crockett, responding, “We’ve got great candidates. Both of them will mobilize a lot of support.”
My interpretation of their reactions is that they don’t want her in the field because she is a brazen loudmouth who is more interested in making social media videos than in legislating. She is on record already, stating that she has no interest in passing legislation, just in stopping Donald Trump. She literally has no achievements in Congress on which to lean, and while that may play well with the Kool-Aid drinkers on the left, moderates and independents want results, not rhetoric.
