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