Die demokratische Abgeordnete Jasmine Crockett erwägt „stark“ eine Kandidatur für den Senat von Texas, wobei Umfragen zeigen, dass sie in Führung liegt
https://www.latintimes.com/democratic-rep-jasmine-crockett-strongly-considering-texas-senate-bid-polling-showing-her-lead-590828
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She would be absolutely awesome and an absolute pain in the ass for Trump.
They tried to get her out by redistricting, kind of makes sense. She has a built in campaign sign running against Cruz. Just put a giant bilboard of his beaten puppy looking face when cold calling for Trump in 2016 that says „Trump insulted my family, my father and my wife. I am now in his pocket. Would you vote for me?“
edit: or him in the Airport that says „Which way to Cancun?“
Actual strong progressive candidate
James Talarico
Terry Virts
Colin Allred
Jasmine Crockett
Quite a slate of candidates …
No disrespect to Crockett but I just don’t see her having as realistic a chance of winning as James Talarico. There’s a ton of republicans that strongly dislike Paxton but would still get out to vote for him over Crockett. Talarico could actually get some of those votes, though, or at least cause some of those republicans to stay home.
She probably has more name recognition but will run into the wall of deep-seated racism in Texas for the general. Talarico is probably more palatable to some of those people, but not yet as widely recognized. Allred needs to bow out; he had his chance.
Texas isn’t electing a liberal black woman to statewide office. I’m sorry.
I wish it were different but that’s not how Texas works.
I want her as my president!
The chances of her winning statewide in Texas feels small. But, if she has national ambitions and can secure some big money backing that would be comfortable losing the battle to win the long term war, this could be an interesting track to the national stage.
*In the lead among Democratic candidates. No Democrat has won a US Senate seat for Texas since 1988, and none has served since 1993.
Love her after seeing her in the Kash Patel senate hearing
Talarico will likely be in the lead by the time the Texas democratic primary rolls around. As he boosts his name recognition by campaigning throughout Texas, he’ll start polling more strongly. Talarico raised $6M in just three weeks, mostly through small donations, setting a new record for a Texas US Senate run.
yes. I don’t live in Texas, but she is a force to be reckoned with. Go girl.
Jasmine, I like you but I like Talarico more. He has an advantage she doesn’t and that’s his religion. If he weren’t running, I’d vote for her if I thought she had a chance
You don’t want to run in a tougher district so your move is run for statewide office tx senate seat? what are we talking about here
I want THIS President please!!!
Stay out of it, Talarico is the better candidate for a state wide race in Texas
Asmuch as I would like to see her stir the pot in Texas, we need her at the federal level
Can she move ala Hillary? It’s never happening in Texas and exercising a campaign to show how shitty the other side is great, but she’s too valuable to be sacrificed
This is the oldest scam in the books. The sun will burn out before Texas elects a democrat
She has no choice at this point! Her seat is going to be erased due to the Texas gerrymander.
Sounds like the perfect candidate to raise $250M only to lose by 10 points in the general election to Ken Paxton.
No.
Talarico please.
Too bad they’d just never confirm her, or reopen the government. We’re so fucked.
I’m a Texan living in Boerne near San Antonio. I’d vote for her in a heartbeat. That said, between the media misinformation in this state and the gerrymandering, I can’t imagine that she would have a chance.
In fairness, I’d vote for a dried pine cone over Ted Cruz. That being said she is amazing and I hope she goes for it. She would fight the fight
Must needed!
She’d get my vote
Don’t give up that seat and that position. She’s a bright young star but Texas isn’t ready for a woman of color Senator.
She shouldn’t. It’s a career killer.
Dems winning Texas US Senate seats is a pipe dream, no matter what the polls say. Cruz and Cornyn are absolutely terrible people, and they still end up beating they Dem challenger.
She’s popular in her district, and she’s popular outside of Texas. But those don’t mean anything against the visegrip the Texas GOP has on the balls of statewide elections.
Yes, please! Ahe us one of the few politicians I actually respect!
Too many rednecks there and pigs flying has a better chance than a dem winning Texas.
We learned nothing from 2024
Yes!!
If she is the nominee, Dems will just lose the state again in a non-competitive race. I don’t know when the party is going to wake up and realize that running establishment Corpo-Dems is why we keep losing. Need to be running leftists, period.
Oh, is it already this part of the election cycle again?
Texas is the ultimate Democratic humiliation fetish state. It’s just a pile of bodies and mountains of cash set on fire supporting the next great hope for allegedly „TEXAS IS ACKTCHUALLY PURPLE“ delusions.
She’s running for Senate because her House seat is disappearing with the Texas redistricting efforts. While she has name recognition, she’s got nothing underneath and is going nowhere fast in a statewide rate in Texas. I.e., her political career is over.
I do appreciate though the irony that she’s popular with the online left because the only notable things about her are: (i) she’s the ‚correct‘ skin color, (ii) she’s the ‚correct‘ sex/gender, (iii) she’s in bed with big money (for her, it’s cryptobros), and (iv) she made fun of someone for their disability to gain some cheap political points. The same folks that *love* her also make fun of Republicans for picking their candidates on basically the exact same factors.
She should run in one of the newly minted districts to hopefully blunt the GOP leaning map.