{"id":15034,"date":"2025-10-30T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-inches-toward-senate-run\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:47:34","slug":"crockett-inches-toward-senate-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-inches-toward-senate-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett inches toward Senate run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is taking further steps toward launching a Senate campaign, including spending significant money on polling and meeting with a potential campaign manager.<\/p>\n

Crockett told Blue Light News\u2019s Dasha Burns in an episode of \u201cThe Conversation\u201d that she\u2019s \u201cseriously weighing\u201d a bid to replace GOP Sen. John Cornyn and is commissioning polling to see how she stacks up against a potentially crowded primary field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am seriously weighing it, to the extent that I\u2019m about to spend a lot of money to get data,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Crockett has raised her profile since first entering Congress in 2023 through memorable and divisive attacks on Republican opponents like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott and President Donald Trump \u2014 becoming a frequent target of Trump\u2019s attacks in the process.<\/p>\n

But Crockett said elevating her profile with Texas voters is only the first step in mounting a serious statewide campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think that we have the luxury, especially with us having such an early primary, of actually doing what we normally do, which \u2014 we spend about $100 million to get someone’s name ID up,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the way that I look at elections is that that’s just first base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crockett said she’s had \u201cmultiple conversations\u201d with someone she\u2019d potentially tap to lead her campaign, without naming them. She said they discussed her chances in a general election against the field of Republicans in the primary, noting that Cornyn would be a stronger challenge than Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’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,\u201d she said. \u201cFor me, I would be making a very last-minute decision because it’s not just about winning the primary. You gotta win the general.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Crockett does jump into the race, she\u2019d join state Rep. James Talarico and former Rep. Colin Allred in the Democratic primary. Former Reps. Beto O\u2019Rourke and Joaquin Castro have also left the door open to Senate bids in a race that Democrats will likely need to win to maintain a chance of regaining control of the Senate.<\/p>\n

Crockett said she hopes that \u201cby the time we start spending money\u201d in the race, voters will know enough about her to get behind her brand of politics, which she defined as aggressively fighting for \u201cvulnerable\u201d people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t necessarily need all this machismo directed at some of the most vulnerable people. What we need is people that are going to be strong and fight for the most vulnerable amongst us,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think that that is the brand that I have set out for myself, is that I want to fight for the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is taking further steps toward launching a Senate campaign, including spending significant money on polling and meeting with a potential campaign manager. Crockett told Blue Light News\u2019s Dasha Burns in an episode of \u201cThe Conversation\u201d that she\u2019s \u201cseriously weighing\u201d a bid to replace GOP Sen. John Cornyn and is commissioning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}