Turns out Texas voters have a limit for political theatrics. In the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, 44, who is known nationally for viral confrontations and headline-grabbing comments – lost to state Rep. James Talarico, a comparatively low-key populist unifying white guy whose campaign has been characterized as a “faith-based, unity-focused populist campaign.”
In a state where Democrats haven’t won a senate seat in 38 years, they might just have a shot at victory now, some say. Still a long shot, but a better long shot.
On the other side of the aisle, Republicans couldn’t quite decide if they wanted to elect MAGA candidate (and AG) Ken Paxton or sometimes-RINO Senator John Cornyn so there will be a runoff in May since neither one got 50% of the vote.
But back to the Democratic side of things…The voters decided on Tuesday that the circus had enough clowns already and they didn’t want to add a new one to the senate. Crockett HAD to jump into the race if she wanted to keep grifting on the taxpayer dime and keep her name in the national spotlight, because the boundaries of her House district were redrawn to favor a GOP candidate.
The Daily Mail reported [1] that as of 6:35 a.m. this morning, Crockett was losing by about five points – with the race already called for Talarico earlier in the morning. The votes didn’t appear to be sexist either with women voting for both candidates on a relatively equal basis. However, Crockett received an “overwhelming share of the black vote” according to the Mail. Unfortunately for her though, even support from former VP Kamala Harris didn’t give Crockett the boost she needed. Surprise, surprise, right?!
Texas voters seemed to send a pretty clear message last night to the Democratic firebrand and maybe to the rest of the party as well: viral moments don’t equal competence – or votes – and sometimes “crazy” gets sent back to the sidelines.