Crockett reminds me of Alan Grayson. They were good for generating headlines but in a way that makes it near impossible to win outside of a house district.
As a 5th-generation, center-left Texan, I share your assessment of Jasmine, and I view her decision to jump into the senate race as immature and narcissistic on her part. In Texas 2026, no one can win an election by attacking Trump as their primary focus. I have shared your concern regarding: Talarico's progressiveness. Yet, last night I attended a small in-person event with him and came away much impressed with his depth, his story, presence, and communication ability/. May enough Texans use their heads rather than partisan payback and vote for the person who actually has a shot at winning the general election and who will focus more on problem-solving than partisan performatives. Dorsey
Not to nitpick too much, but it’s way hyperbolic to say Democrats are trapped in that. As someone who lives in Texas I can tell you she’s widely disliked among Democrats here. I would be surprised if even one member of the congressional delegation likes her and I doubt she’ll get any big endorsements here. There’s a lot of anger at her for jumping in the race at the eleventh hour without giving anyone a heads up.
Texas Democrats had an opportunity to back a literal fucking astronaut in Terry Virts for US Senate (probably the only candidate who had a sliver of a chance of winning) and chose to basically ignore him. And then they also refused to rally around the next best option in Colin Allred.
I agree with you on Terry yet, like Andrew white...their campaigns never got off the ground. I strongly supported Colin against Cruz. I'd always appreciated his bipartisanship. Yet, I was very disappointed in his move to the left in the general (he'd have had the progressives anyway) and his poor performance in their debate. I felt his time had passed and I resent his decision to run against an incumbent Democrat for Congress.
Obviously, bad faith Republicans exploit this dynamic in bad faith ways, but until a prominent liberal declines to dance to this tune, it will continue to be heard as the Democrat's anthem.
The "Sister Soulja" trope is overdone, but Bowen Yang had the opportunity here, and he cowered in fear instead.
Josh I need you to identify gay slurs for me in the text. I did not know what a gaping rosebud was and when I (unwisely) googled it I got a lot more than I asked for.
"Contentless" is such a good way to describe the MTG "clapback." It was such an odd combination of words that it worked, and it was responding to a puerile insult from MTG ("your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading"); so in the moment, it worked. But if it had a meaning, it was: MTG works out a lot, which makes her look manly.
The funniest aspect of the campaign is that Republicans successfully baited her into it. I remember talking to Texas Dems after the NRSC polled the state to prove that Crockett could win a primary. Their eyes rolled at maximum speed; it was obvious that the GOP was trolling them and her, just as Jon Ossoff tried to troll MTG into his Senate race. They (Republicans) still can't quite believe that she went for it and that her rationale for running so far is that she got "numbers" that shows she can win.
It drives me crazy that Crockett and Talarico are bringing in as much money as they are given how little they move the needle in Texas.
One of them will get the nomination due to money whipping their way into people’s attention over the next month-plus, but they’ll lose in November for sure.
I might just have to jump over to the Republican primary to help out Cornyn, because I really think one useless Senator (Cruz) is more than enough.
What was their reason for not supporting her? That she doesn't have a chance of winning so there's no reason to fund her or do they have a disagreement on some issue? I hope it's the former and the broader Dem coalition can stop getting emails pleading for donations to beat Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham, because the challenger is so close in the polls.
Crockett reminds me of Alan Grayson. They were good for generating headlines but in a way that makes it near impossible to win outside of a house district.
As a 5th-generation, center-left Texan, I share your assessment of Jasmine, and I view her decision to jump into the senate race as immature and narcissistic on her part. In Texas 2026, no one can win an election by attacking Trump as their primary focus. I have shared your concern regarding: Talarico's progressiveness. Yet, last night I attended a small in-person event with him and came away much impressed with his depth, his story, presence, and communication ability/. May enough Texans use their heads rather than partisan payback and vote for the person who actually has a shot at winning the general election and who will focus more on problem-solving than partisan performatives. Dorsey
Not to nitpick too much, but it’s way hyperbolic to say Democrats are trapped in that. As someone who lives in Texas I can tell you she’s widely disliked among Democrats here. I would be surprised if even one member of the congressional delegation likes her and I doubt she’ll get any big endorsements here. There’s a lot of anger at her for jumping in the race at the eleventh hour without giving anyone a heads up.
Texas Democrats had an opportunity to back a literal fucking astronaut in Terry Virts for US Senate (probably the only candidate who had a sliver of a chance of winning) and chose to basically ignore him. And then they also refused to rally around the next best option in Colin Allred.
They deserve Jasmine Crockett as their nominee.
I agree with you on Terry yet, like Andrew white...their campaigns never got off the ground. I strongly supported Colin against Cruz. I'd always appreciated his bipartisanship. Yet, I was very disappointed in his move to the left in the general (he'd have had the progressives anyway) and his poor performance in their debate. I felt his time had passed and I resent his decision to run against an incumbent Democrat for Congress.
Lauren Egan had a good story about Virts. He just didn't have much natural media talent so nothing he did broke through. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-struggle-to-make-their-moderates-go-viral
Obviously, bad faith Republicans exploit this dynamic in bad faith ways, but until a prominent liberal declines to dance to this tune, it will continue to be heard as the Democrat's anthem.
The "Sister Soulja" trope is overdone, but Bowen Yang had the opportunity here, and he cowered in fear instead.
Josh I need you to identify gay slurs for me in the text. I did not know what a gaping rosebud was and when I (unwisely) googled it I got a lot more than I asked for.
"Contentless" is such a good way to describe the MTG "clapback." It was such an odd combination of words that it worked, and it was responding to a puerile insult from MTG ("your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading"); so in the moment, it worked. But if it had a meaning, it was: MTG works out a lot, which makes her look manly.
The funniest aspect of the campaign is that Republicans successfully baited her into it. I remember talking to Texas Dems after the NRSC polled the state to prove that Crockett could win a primary. Their eyes rolled at maximum speed; it was obvious that the GOP was trolling them and her, just as Jon Ossoff tried to troll MTG into his Senate race. They (Republicans) still can't quite believe that she went for it and that her rationale for running so far is that she got "numbers" that shows she can win.
> and indicates that he was alive in 2020
Falsely claiming to be alive is exactly the kind of thing I would expect from Epstein the financier.
It drives me crazy that Crockett and Talarico are bringing in as much money as they are given how little they move the needle in Texas.
One of them will get the nomination due to money whipping their way into people’s attention over the next month-plus, but they’ll lose in November for sure.
I might just have to jump over to the Republican primary to help out Cornyn, because I really think one useless Senator (Cruz) is more than enough.
What was their reason for not supporting her? That she doesn't have a chance of winning so there's no reason to fund her or do they have a disagreement on some issue? I hope it's the former and the broader Dem coalition can stop getting emails pleading for donations to beat Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham, because the challenger is so close in the polls.
I kind of like Jasmine Crockett but I wouldn;t change a word of this column.