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.
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.
The controversial Democrat cited polling data putting her on top of an already crowded primary field. “Every other day there’s a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas,” she told Favors. A University of Houston poll released earlier this month found Crockett with 31 percent of the vote, leading state representative James Talarico by 6 points and failed 2024 Senate candidate Colin Allred by 18 points.
“The question will be whether or not we believe that we’ve got enough juice to expand the electorate,” Crockett told Favors. “If we can expand the electorate, then I will strongly be considering hopping in the Senate race.”
Texas is a solidly red state that voted three times for President Donald Trump. Republican senator Ted Cruz beat Allred by 9 points in 2024.
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