By Becket Adams
Sunday, December 14, 2025
How potentially disastrous is loudmouth Democratic
Representative Jasmine Crockett’s campaign for U.S. Senate?
Disastrous enough that Republicans are already being
blamed for tricking her into running.
Crockett announced her candidacy last week in a brief
video, in which she miraculously accomplished the one thing most people thought
her incapable of: she otherwise kept her mouth shut. Thus far, her entire
campaign pitch is that she is not Donald Trump. That’s it. There’s nothing more
to it. Historically, this approach has only succeeded when combined with a
promise of normalcy (see: Clinton 2016 vs. Biden 2020). But Crockett, a
lawmaker whose first real brush with internet fame came when she shamed fellow
idiot Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “bleach-blonde bad-built butch
body,” is anything but normal. She is that weird brand of politician who draws
disproportionate media attention despite lacking any real, widespread appeal.
If Crockett wins the Texas Democratic primary, it’s not a
question of whether she will lose on Election Day, but by how much.
This brings us to a fascinating mini-news cycle where
Republicans are now accused of sabotaging Democrats — by tricking a generally
unelectable politician into running for the U.S. Senate.
The cycle began with an anonymously sourced report in NOTUS titled, “An ‘AstroTurf Recruitment
Process’: National Republicans Propped Up Jasmine Crockett to Push Her Into a
Senate Run.” The subhead reads, “The NRSC started including Crockett’s name in
polling and conducted ‘a sustained effort’ to get Crockett, the party’s
preferred candidate to run against, into the race.”
The report cites an anonymous GOP source who claims the
National Republican Senatorial Committee quietly worked behind the scenes to
create polling that included Crockett in hypothetical matchups. When polling
showed her performing well, the NRSC promoted that polling.
From this, we get allegations of “astroturfing” as well
as copycat coverage, including from The Independent, which
published a story titled, “GOP goaded Jasmine Crockett into running for senate
by promoting favorable polls.” Its subhead adds, “Crockett was reportedly the
GOP’s preferred opponent in the 2026 Senate elections in Texas, but had not
been considered as a potential contender in the race by her own party.”
Then, there’s the New Republic, which went with
this headline: “How GOP Secretly Helped Convince Jasmine Crockett to Run for
Senate,” with the subhead, “The National Republican Senatorial Committee pushed
polls in Crockett’s favor.”
And so on and so on.
Look, maybe you can credit Republicans with planting the
seed in Crockett’s mind — they obviously would prefer her as the Democrats’
nominee — but you can’t credit them with tricking her into running. She’s a
grown adult with her own agency. Anyone who has observed her time in the public
eye knows she has an ego the size of Mount Rushmore and needs little convincing
to run for higher office. It’s not the GOP’s fault she’s even more delusional
than her dimwit colleagues, Representatives Greene, Lauren Boebert, and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, like Crockett, do a decent job of making
headlines and keeping the faithful engaged, but have no real ability to get
elected outside their safe D or R districts.
Crockett is like every loudmouth who has come before her
in Congress, big on posturing and insults but lacking a clearly defined
platform with broad appeal. Crockett is like Ocasio-Cortez but with less media
savvy — and this is to say nothing of Crockett’s off-putting personality and
the many things she has said that obviously will not fly with the broader Texas
electorate. The location is worth emphasizing: AOC performs her shtick in New
York; Crockett is doing it in Texas.
Crockett’s campaign is nobody’s fault but her own, and it
might prevent Democrats once again from claiming the Senate seat they’ve long
sought.
By itself, it’s funny that Republicans are credited with
Crockett’s campaign. It’s even more amusing when you realize the condescending
attitude this story reveals — an attitude that appears to have gone unnoticed
by the news outlets reporting it. Do these people not realize how this
narrative suggests Crockett cannot make her own decisions? It’s not enough to
say she made a poor and self-centered choice; they have to go that extra step
and imply she’s dumb enough to launch a U.S. Senate campaign based on a sly
Republican trick.
Not even Crockett’s harshest critics think so little of
her as to suggest she’d fall for a watercooler whisper campaign.
Then again, it’s not the first time Democrats were patronizing
toward a black candidate. With friends like these, who needs
enemies?
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