Far-left Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) appears even more likely than previously thought to run for the Texas Senate seat in 2026, a move thought by many on the right to be a major win for America’s conservative movement, as her candidacy would give the Republican candidate a near-perfect candidate to run against, given Crockett’s radicalism and penchant for saying ridiculous things.
As background, the main contest in Texas right now is between sitting US Sen. John Cornyn, a moderate Republican senator known and despised by MAGA for his attempts to work with the Democrats to push gun control, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is known for his tough on illegal immigration policies.
On the Democrat side, things have been thrown into confusion by the redistricting scheme that the Supreme Court has greenlit, one which gets rid of numerous blue districts in the state, including Rep. Crockett’s. As such, Crockett has indicated that she will take advantage of the confusion and run, a situation the Republicans see as an obvious and absolute win, given her poor chances of winning.
Particularly, speaking on Monday, December 8, on Fox News Channel, FNC personality Marc Thiessen confidently predicted that Rep. Crockett’s impending Senate run will come up short for Democrats and lead to a major win for Republicans. That came when he spoke with anchor Dana Perino.
After being prompted by Perino to comment on the situation and who the next senator from Texas will be, Thiessen explained that she hardly has a snowball’s chance in hell, saying, “She’s [Crockett] got about as much chance of being the next senator from Texas as I do to have being the next senator from California.”
Continuing, he noted that the Democrats seem to have learned the wrong lesson from Mamdani and Crockett’s seemingly likely candidacy is indicative of that, saying, “Her candidacy would be exactly everything that’s wrong with the modern Democratic Party today. It’s what I would call the first iteration of the Mamdani fallacy, which is that the lesson of the last off-year elections was ‘We gotta go out and find some more energetic leftists to energize our base and run just like Mamdani did.’”
Building on that point, he explained that the Mamdani strategy would not work in a swing state or red state because voters in such places remain much more sane, saying, “And the problem with that is is Mamdani won in deep blue New York against a disgraced former governor. That doesn’t work in swing states, and it certainly doesn’t work in deep red Texas. There is no way that the state of Texas is going to send Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate as their as their elected representative.”
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Further, commenting on Crockett in the context of what her bid says about the DNC, Thiessen noted, “Well, it’s just he’s not guiding the Democratic Party in the direction it needs to go to. I mean the Democratic Party’s popularity is at a 35-year low right now. Sixty-three percent disapproval. Part-, the last time the Democrats had above 50% approval was in the 1990s under Bill Clinton. Maybe that should tell you something.”
Concluding, he noted, “You’ve been consistently moving further and further to the left, and you’re becoming consistently less and less popular. What the Democrats need if they want to come back and out of the political wilderness is they need less socialism and more triangulation. I would go back and look at how Bill Clinton won won two terms in the presidency, because they’re heading in the wrong direction.”
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