Monday, December 8, 2025

Could the latest liberal darling cost Democrats their best chance at flipping Texas Senate seat?

On Monday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett shook up Texas politics when she filed to run for the Democratic nomination for one of the two Lone Star State seats in the U.S. Senate.

Almost immediately, everyone in Washington could hear Texas Republicans’ boot-heels clicking.

Jennifer DeCasper, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, tweeted that Crockett was the NRSC’s “#1 recruit.” The committee had put out a poll in July showing her leading Democrat Colin Allred, who announced Monday he would drop out of the race to run instead for his old House seat.

Crockett has become a darling of the “No Kings” protest-marching liberals who enjoy her for her barbs against Republicans such as calling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a “bleach blonde bad-built butch body” and Rep. Nancy Mace “child” after Mace made transphobic remarks.

But Crockett has also gotten herself in trouble in recent months for the same sharp tongue that allows her to raise gobs of cash.

Earlier this year, she came under fire for calling Texas Gov. Greg Abbott – who has a disability and uses a wheelchair – ”Governor Hot Wheels.” She also recently spoke on the House floor and said that Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin received money from Jeffrey Epstein when Zeldin served in Congress from New York, but it was a person not related to the late convicted sex offender. 

Now Crockett is set for a collision course with state legislator James Talarico. But some Democrats fear that Crockett might cost them their best chance at causing a 50-50 Senate in 2026.

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