I don’t have anything against Crockett as a person, don’t even really know much about her.
Just that Republicans want her to make it to the general, that they paid for and promoted polls that said she could win the primary, and that she’s cited those very same polls as the reason she’s running.
If she’s naive enough to not understand she’s being manipulated here, or too headstrong to have re-evaluated after learning the truth…
She’s probably not gonna be a good politician.
Meanwhile if you’ve seen Talerico’s Colbert interview, you understand why trump sicced the FCC on them and prevented it from being aired with the show.
That dude could flip Texas without breaking a sweat.
Regardless of who wins the Dem primary tho, I’ll be pulling for them in the general.
Have some links for the manipulation? I don’t think the Republicans really want to see either of them, frankly but I like Crockett.
In June news broke that Texas Democrats Colin Allred, James Talarico, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Rep. Joaquin Castro met to discuss the 2026 election. Operatives at the NRSC realized that Crockett — whose political stock had been rising — wasn’t included in that meeting and also hadn’t been included in any credible poll. So they decided to change that.
Following the NRSC’s polls, other surveys began to include Crockett and showed similar results: She was surging in the primary.
The NRSC then worked to amplify those polls and is taking credit for helping “orchestrate the pile on of these polling numbers to really drive that news cycle and that narrative that Jasmine Crockett was surging in Texas,” the source said.
Crockett herself even admitted she was encouraged to jump into the race by all the positive polling she was seeing ahead of her announcement.
“The more I saw the poll results, I couldn’t ignore the trends that were clear,” Crockett said during her announcement speech.
Crockett did not return a request for comment.
https://www.notus.org/senate/jasmine-crockett-nrsc-texas-senate
To be fair, this is the same gambit Hillary made with trump in 2015, and we all know how that worked out
My main issue with Crockett over all this, is she needed to at least acknowledge it. Throw in a “be careful what you wish for” and it would have likely even helped.
Going “no comment” right before a primary is a bad look. And like I said, something like this is where you see a person’s character. If someone can never admit they’re wrong and buries their head in the sand, they’re not a good leader even if they can win elections.
Quick edit:
NRSC = National Republican Senatorial Committee
I wish Talerico was running for governor instead, but I voted today for the sole purpose of him being the Democrat congressional candidate.
