Jasmine Crockett Forgets How Much Texas Hates Her, Announces Senate Run
- Chadwick Dolgos
- 5 hours ago
- 2 min read
Rep. Jasmine Crockett announced Monday that she is running for the United States Senate in 2026, apparently operating under the impression that the rest of Texas has forgotten every viral outburst that made her a national punchline.
The two-term Dallas Democrat released a campaign video built almost entirely around clips of President Donald Trump calling her “low IQ,” a montage her team presented as proof she is the one Republicans are most afraid of.
Crockett launched the bid before several dozen supporters at a Dallas community center, entering a Democratic primary already occupied by state Rep. James Talarico. She begins the race with $4.6 million in the bank, almost all of it raised from out-of-state donors.
“I’m done playing nice,” Crockett told the crowd. “It’s time to take the fight straight to Donald Trump and every Republican who carries his water.”
A campaign official confirmed the entire strategy rests on turning Trump’s insults into turnout among Democratic base voters, a plan that assumes the other 29 million Texans who do not live inside her deep-blue congressional district feel the same way.
Within minutes of the announcement, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a highlight reel of Crockett moments, including her reference to Gov. Greg Abbott as “Hot Wheels,” her claim that illegally crossing the border is not a crime, and multiple televised comparisons of Trump to Adolf Hitler. The video has already been viewed more than three million times.
“You’re not entitled to a damn thing in Texas,” Crockett repeated to reporters after the event, the same line her consultants believe will play well in Lubbock, Amarillo, and the entire Houston suburbs.
Recent polling shows Crockett with approval ratings underwater by double digits outside the Dallas media market. She dismissed the numbers as irrelevant.
“People know I speak the truth,” she said. “That’s why they scared.”
Texas has not elected a Democrat to statewide office in more than thirty years, and an unlikable radical Democrat is unlikely to change that by next year.
The 2026 contest against Sen. John Cornyn is expected to cost upwards of three-quarters of a billion dollars, most of it likely spent reminding primary and general-election voters why they already dislike Jasmine Crockett.
The Democratic primary is set for March 2026, with early voting beginning in February.
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