Jasmine Crockett became a socialist Democrat darling by attacking conservatives.
She's eyeing a promotion.
And Jasmine Crockett made one announcement that left Democrats fearing the worst.
Crockett inches closer to Senate run with massive spending announcement
U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) announced she's taking serious steps toward launching a Senate campaign that could upend the Democrat Party's plans for 2026.
Crockett told Politico's Dasha Burns she's "seriously weighing" a bid for the seat currently held by RINO Senator John Cornyn and is "about to spend a lot of money to get data."¹
The Dallas Democrat has already met multiple times with a potential campaign manager and is commissioning extensive polling to see how she stacks up against what could become a crowded Democrat primary field.
"I am seriously weighing it, to the extent that I'm about to spend a lot of money to get data," Crockett said. "I'm a data-driven person."²
Crockett made clear she believes Texas Democrats need to change their approach if they want different results.
But her potential candidacy has Democrats worried about a nasty primary fight that could tear the party apart before the general election even begins.
Crockett's track record of controversy creates Democrat headache
Since entering Congress in 2023, Crockett has built her brand on inflammatory attacks that generate headlines but alienate the voters Democrats need to win.
The left-wing firebrand faced censure efforts after calling Texas Governor Greg Abbott "Governor Hot Wheels" during a March 2025 Human Rights Campaign speech, mocking the wheelchair-bound Republican leader.³
Abbott was paralyzed from the waist down in 1984 after a tree fell on him while jogging.
Representative Randy Weber (R-TX) filed a censure resolution against Crockett for speaking "in a manner unbecoming of a Member of Congress."⁴
Even Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called her remarks "shameful" and warned that "if this is who Democrats are turning to for leadership, they've got a tough road ahead."
Crockett went viral in May 2024 after a heated exchange with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), where she fired back with comments about Greene's "bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body."⁵
Saturday Night Live spoofed the moment and labeled Crockett "the bad girl of C-SPAN."
Democrats privately cringed at Crockett's antics while publicly defending her as a fierce advocate.
But here's what really exposes how Democrats view her: She was a co-chair of the failed 2024 Harris-Walz campaign and ran for Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee before withdrawing after placing dead last in the House Democrat Steering and Policy Committee vote.⁶
Read that again – dead last among her own Democrat colleagues.
That embarrassing loss exposed how even Democrats in Congress don't trust Crockett with leadership positions.
Now she wants to become the face of their party in a high-stakes Senate race.
Crowded Democrat field creates nightmare scenario for national party
Crockett joins an already packed Democrat primary that includes former Representative Colin Allred, who lost to Senator Ted Cruz by 8.5 points in 2024.⁷
State Representative James Talarico and several other Democrats have also expressed interest in the race.
Former Representatives Beto O'Rourke and Joaquin Castro continue to leave the door open to Senate bids despite their track records of losing statewide races.⁸
O'Rourke lost to Cruz in 2018 by 2.6 points, then got crushed by Governor Abbott in the 2022 gubernatorial race by nearly 11 points.
That's the Democrat bench in Texas – a collection of serial losers and controversy magnets all fighting to lead the party off another cliff.
Democrats are banking on a brutal Republican primary between the gun-grabbing RINO Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton to hand them an opening.
Recent polling shows Cornyn and Paxton in a statistical dead heat, with Cornyn at 30% and Paxton at 29% among likely Republican primary voters.⁹
Cornyn infuriated conservatives by playing a leading role in passing Biden's gun control legislation after the Uvalde school shooting, cementing his status as a traitor to the Second Amendment.
Representative Wesley Hunt (R-TX) entered the race in October, complicating the Republican picture but likely forcing a runoff between the top two candidates.
Democrats think Paxton would be easier to beat in a general election due to his because of past controversies.
But Crockett admitted she doesn't think any Democrat can defeat Cornyn if the RINO wins the primary.
"I'm going to be flat out with you and tell you that I don't think that there's a Democrat that can take out Cornyn," Crockett said. "For me, I would be making a very last-minute decision, because it's not just about winning the primary. You got to win the general."¹⁰
Even Crockett recognizes Cornyn's name recognition and establishment backing make him formidable despite betraying conservative voters on guns, amnesty for illegal aliens, and funneling taxpayer money to Ukraine.
Translation: She knows she can't win but she's going to blow millions of Democrat dollars and destroy the party's brand anyway.
Crockett would drag down Democrats from coast to coast
A Crockett Senate campaign would become a nightmare for Democrats nationwide.
She'd become the face of the Democrat Party during the 2026 midterms in one of the highest-profile Senate races in the country.
Every inflammatory comment, every radical policy position, and every controversy would get amplified across Texas and broadcast to voters nationwide.
Think about what Republicans would do with Crockett's greatest hits.
That "Governor Hot Wheels" comment mocking a disabled governor? Democrats in competitive House races from Pennsylvania to Arizona would spend millions trying to explain why their party elevated someone who attacks people with disabilities.
Her "bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body" attack on a colleague? Republican ads would run that clip on loop in every suburban swing district where Democrats need moderate women voters.
Her dead-last finish in the Democrat leadership vote? Perfect proof that even her own party thinks she's unfit for higher office.
Republicans would tie every vulnerable Democrat to Crockett's record of mocking disabled officials and pushing socialist policies.
Crockett said she's building a "brand" focused on "fighting for the most vulnerable amongst us."¹¹
That's socialist code for massive government expansion and wealth redistribution schemes.
Her Congressional voting record shows she's a reliable vote for every radical leftist priority.
Crockett introduced legislation to prohibit federal funds from paying President Trump legal settlements and sponsored the "FREE SPEECH Act" while simultaneously supporting censorship of conservative voices on social media.¹²
The hypocrisy is stunning even by Washington, D.C. standards.
Her progressive policy positions and inflammatory rhetoric appeal to the hard-left base that dominates Democrat primaries but repel the moderate and independent voters needed to win statewide in Texas.
Republicans haven't lost a Senate race in Texas since 1990, and no incumbent Senator has lost a primary since 1970.¹³
Crockett faces a mathematical impossibility trying to win over Texas voters with her brand of left-wing politics and personal attacks.
Here's the delicious irony Democrats can't escape: Texas voters rejected Kamala Harris by nearly 14 points in 2024 even with Crockett serving as a national co-chair of her campaign.
Democrats learned absolutely nothing from that disaster.
Now they're about to repeat it at the Senate level with the same toxic messenger.
Democrats are desperate to break their 30-year statewide losing streak in Texas.
But elevating Jasmine Crockett to the top of the ticket would be political suicide.
She'd become the national poster child for everything swing voters reject about the modern Democrat Party – divisive rhetoric, radical policies, and personal attacks instead of solutions.
Republicans would run ads featuring Crockett's greatest hits on a loop in every competitive House and Senate race across the country.
Moderate Democrats in swing districts would spend the entire campaign trying to distance themselves from their party's Senate nominee in Texas.
Good luck with that when the Republican National Committee is cutting ads tying you to her voting record and inflammatory statements.
That's exactly why smart Democrats are privately begging Crockett to stay in the House where her antics only embarrass the Dallas area instead of dragging down the entire party.
But Crockett's too busy commissioning polls and spending money to hear them.
Republicans should be popping champagne if she runs.
A Crockett Senate campaign would be the gift that keeps on giving all the way through November 2026.
¹ Aaron Pellish, "Crockett inches toward Senate run," Politico, October 30, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ "House censure resolution filed against Rep. Crockett," NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, March 26, 2025.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Who is Jasmine Crockett? What to know about the lawmaker from Dallas," Houston Chronicle, March 25, 2025.
⁶ "Jasmine Crockett," Wikipedia, October 31, 2025.
⁷ "Texas Democrat Colin Allred launches 2026 U.S. Senate campaign," The Texas Tribune, July 1, 2025.
⁸ "Here are some of the Texas Democrats eyeing statewide runs in 2026," The Texas Tribune, June 16, 2025.
⁹ "Texas 2026 Poll: Cornyn and Paxton in Dead Heat for GOP Senate Nomination," Emerson College Polling, September 1, 2025.
¹⁰ Aaron Pellish, "Crockett inches toward Senate run," Politico, October 30, 2025.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² "Jasmine Crockett," Congress.gov, October 28, 2025.
¹³ "2026 United States Senate election in Texas," Wikipedia, October 31, 2025.