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Are You Ready For ... Senator Jasmine Crockett?

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Oh, no, Texas Democrats! Don't nominate Jasmine Crockett to run for Texas' seat in the US Senate! That's our worst nightmare!

Or yours. I'm pretty sure it will be someone's nightmare.

The possibility popped up this week after the House Democrat made an appearance on Urban Review Radio, lamenting the new congressional map passed by the Texas state legislature and her chances of holding her seat. Crockett channeled her inner Obi-Wan and Zen master, but somehow failed math while threatening revenge in the Senate race:

Far-left Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas), who mocked Gov. Greg Abbott's (R.) disability and smeared assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is eyeing a Senate run in next year's midterm elections, saying Wednesday that her victory would be "karma" for Republicans' proposed redistricting efforts in her state.

"If you want to take my seat of 766,000 away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that to where I take your seat that is for 30 million away," Crockett told radio host Lurie Daniel Favors.

Er ... yeah. Has Crockett actually thought about the math involved in that calculation? It's easy for a firebrand radical to win a House seat in a limited constituency centered on an urban core that overwhelmingly votes Democrat. That's how her colleagues in The Squad got into Congress, as well as herself: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, et al

Winning a majority in a far more ideologically diverse statewide electorate would be a completely different story for each of them. AOC supposedly wants to challenge Chuck Schumer at some point for his Senate seat, but voters outside NYC and perhaps even just her Brooklyn constituency might make that tricky -- and that's in a deep-blue state. Imagine AOC running in deep-red Texas, only with less of a national following, and the math just ain't mathing here. 

The second-most amusing aspect of this claim is that it's not even original. The last two Democrat nominees to take aim at Ted Cruz were Robert Francis O'Rourke and Colin Allred. Both of them held House seats in urban districts. Both of them figured they could simply go after a not-entirely-popular incumbent and give themselves a promotion. Both lost, and Allred in particular lost badly, by almost nine points and over 900,000 votes. O'Rourke came closer six years prior, but even in a big Democrat midterm cycle, he lost by almost three points and 200,000 votes -- after getting a national-media tongue bath as the latest "Kennedy-esque" Democrat. 

And both men tried running to the center, not the hard Left. That brings us to the most amusing aspect of Crockett's campaign -- her standing among Texans. The Free Beacon runs through the lowlights quickly but effectively:

Crockett has carved out a reputation as one of her party's most controversial voices. After Kirk's murder, the congresswoman called him a racist and lamented that only "two Caucasians" in Congress voted against a resolution honoring him. Earlier this year, she called Abbott, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels" and attacked Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds's interracial marriage.

Just in case Texans have forgotten the "hot wheels" comment in March, here it is again:

The attack on Byron Donalds over his marriage took place in June 2024:


Bear in mind that Democrats nominated a black woman married to a white man as their presidential candidate a month later. Also, how many interracial marriages might there be in Texas? A lot. That's where the math around 30 million people comes into play. 

And perhaps the best part of this story? Crockett is probably serious about running for the Senate. A University of Houston poll shows her leading among likely Democrat candidates for the nomination, including both Allred and O'Rourke:

  • Crockett: 31%
  • James Talarico: 25%
  • O'Rourke: 25%
  • Allred: 13%

Allred and Talarico (a state legislator) have already officially launched their campaigns. Neither is setting their party on fire at the moment. 

Until now, Republicans may have worried about the primary fight between Ken Paxton and incumbent John Cornyn leaving an opening for Democrats to steal the seat. If Crockett gets into the race, the GOP primary fight won't matter at all. Texans might elect the corpse of Sam Houston to the seat rather than the radical nutcase that perfectly fits the Democrat Party of this moment in time. So please, Texas Democrats, don't throw us into that briar patch!

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