Congressman Crockett says he’ll tell Musk to fuck off if he gets the chance
Rep. Jasmine Crockett didn’t hold back when asked outside the U.S. Capitol on February 25 if she had a message for billionaire Elon Musk, the head of the so-called Initiative for Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is hinting at a run for the U.S. Senate.
Crockett, who represents the Dallas metropolitan area, may run in the primary to oust Republican Sen. John Cornyn, she shared on Wednesday, Oct. 22.
“Every other day, a poll comes out and it becomes clear that I can win the Texas Senate primary,” Crockett said on SiriusXM’s “The Lurie Daniel Favors Show,” according to The Hill and Axios.
He suggested he may enter the race if the Texas Republican Party succeeds in relinquishing the seat in an effort to dramatically redirect Texas’ redistricting. “If you want to take away my 766,000 seats, I think there has to be some kind of karma for me to take your 30 million seats,” Crockett said.
The Texas congressman is known for his testy (and viral) exchanges with colleagues, including calling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a “bleached blonde, bad-ass piece of shit” after the Georgia Republican mocked her “fake eyelashes.” Earlier this year, she referred to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is in a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels.”
“You all know we put Governor Hot Wheels there,” Crockett said at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles in March. “And the only thing that’s appealing about him is that he’s a (expletive) messed up person, honey.”
Crockett later claimed that his comments were not about his “condition,” but about “the planes, trains, and automobiles he has used to deliberately incite tension and fear among the most vulnerable and transport immigrants into communities led by black mayors.” At the age of 26, Abbott was paralyzed from the waist down by a falling tree while running.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first extended interview since losing the 2024 presidential election to President Donald Trump last month, responded to a question from Rachel Maddow about her support for Zoran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race and singled out Crockett as a rising star in the Democratic Party.
Despite his occasional antics in Washington, D.C., Crockett is likely to be the front-runner among Texas primary voters, according to a University of Houston-Texas Southern University poll released earlier this month.
Crockett leads the poll with 31%, followed by Texas Rep. James Talarico and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke with 25%. Rep. Colin Allred was behind with 13%, and 6% of primary voters remained unsure.
Mr. O’Rourke defeated Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 by less than 3 points, while Mr. Allred easily lost to Mr. Cruz in his re-election bid last year by a margin of nearly 8.5 percentage points. Cornyn defeated his last opponent, veteran former House candidate MJ Hegar, by nearly 10 points in the 2020 campaign.
Mr. Cornyn faces a looming primary battle against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a staunch ally of Mr. Trump whose personal conduct over the past few years has unnerved some party members. Paxton is facing criticism over his 2023 impeachment trial on charges of abuse of power, including bribery and adultery charges, which were brought by his estranged wife, Texas Sen. Angela Paxton, in her July divorce filing.
Contributor: James Powell
