Far-left Democratic member of Congress Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has announced that she is running for Texas’s up for election senate seat in the 2026 midterms, a decision that means she will likely be pitted against either Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who currently holds the seat, or Texas AG Ken Paxton, who is challenging him for it in the GOP primary.
Republicans, as could be expected, have reacted with undisguised glee to the news, seeing Rep. Crockett as an individual who will be easier to target and take down in a Senate race in the red state of Texas than a more moderate Democratic candidate who could potentially rally independent voters.
For reference, Crockett bizarrely launcher her candidacy in a video posted to X that shows Trump roasting her as she stands and tries to look tough and senatorial. He can be heard saying, “How about this new one they have? Their new star, Crockett. How about her? She’s the new star of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett. They’re in big trouble” and “Somebody said the other day, she’s one of the leaders of the party. I said you gotta be kidding.” He adds, “Oh man, oh man. She’s a very low IQ person…now they’re gonna rely on Crockett. Crockett’s gonna bring them back.”
And, announcing her decision to run during a campaign event in the blue city of Dallas, she said, “I’m done with the senators sitting around doing nothing while Trump takes your hard-earned money, skims your Social Security, slashes Medicare, and gives tax breaks to billionaires. I’m done.”
In any case, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), known to many as America’s funniest senator because of how he is able to get in great, very funny jabs at his enemies, appeared on Fox News Channel’s “My View with Lara Trump” on Sunday, December 14, and skewered Rep. Crockett for her decision to run. “They need to tell her that the voices in her head are not real,” Sen. Kennedy said.
Also, the senator slammed Crockett as somehow managing to be “wrong on every single issue.” Further, predicting that she will be losing the race, he noted that will mean that she will “be leaving Congress,” as she will be giving up the opportunity to run to keep a seat in the House if she runs for the Senate seat in 2026.
“I don’t want anybody to be in Congress who doesn’t want to be here,” the senator said, commenting on her decision to get out of the legislature by losing a race. He added, mockingly, “So, if people are unhappy, you know, don’t let the door hit them in the butt on the way out.”
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Further, the senator noted that her decision to run is very much a losing one, as “the people of Texas will never embrace her message.” He added, getting in another funny verbal jab at Crockett’s expense, “I don’t know why she’s doing this, but you know, hey, you have the right in America to do dumb things if you want to.”
Watch him here:
🚨 NEW: Senator John Kennedy CALLS OUT Jasmine Crockett for entering Texas Senate race: “Somebody needs to tell the congresswoman that the voices in her head are not real. She is wrong on every single issue.”
“I don’t know why she’s doing this, but you have the right in America… pic.twitter.com/0GZvqIwssn
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