Texas Republicans who are celebrating Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) jumping into the race for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) might want to think twice that whoever wins the GOP primary will be a lock in the general election.
According to feminist Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte, Crockett has both a knack for getting under Republicans’ skin, but also is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with Republicans when it comes to trash-talking.
And that, the columnist asserted, is just what liberal voters, who are fed up with cautious Democratic messaging, are hungry for.
Noting that the Texas GOP “spent months goading Crockett into entering the Democratic primary against Austin state Rep. James Talarico,” Marcotte noted Crockett’s history of saying what’s on her mind, “... has endeared her to the highly partisan, deeply engaged Democratic voters who tend to determine primaries and would likely see her as the rare Democrat willing to put up a real fight against Trump and Republicans.”
Equating her appeal to that of both newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and even pre-first presidential run Donald Trump — she wrote, that it is, “... worth noting that most political experts thought Donald Trump couldn’t win, and that his hack insult comedy routine would fail. Turns out, though, that a lot of voters are fine with a candidate who is a loudmouth or a bully, so long as they feel that person is a fighter who is ready to shake things up.”
“Republicans may regret propping up a candidate whose qualities they believe make her ‘unelectable,’ which may instead draw attention and passion that pushes her over the top,” the columnist elaborated before adding that Crockett is the antithesis of Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, which no longer works in the political climate fostered by Trump.
“Republicans found the low road to be useful and beneficial, in no small part because it was a clear path for them. But with Crockett leading the way, they may find there’s a surge of progressives ready to create a pile-up on Interstate Insult Comedy,” she wrote before conceding, “It could be bad for our overall political health. Or it could be good, reinvigorating people who were checking out. But one thing is for certain: Republicans aren’t going to like a world where Democrats start giving as good as they get.”
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