Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) revealed Wednesday she was considering a Senate campaign for the seat of Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who’s locked in a bitter primary of his own against two challengers.
Crockett, known on Capitol Hill for her progressive views and animated politicking, said a possible bid was incumbent upon a legal challenge to the Lone Star State’s redrawn congressional map that would place her in a different Democratic majority district.
“If we can expand the electorate, then I will strongly be considering hopping in the Senate race,” Crockett said in a posted interview clip with SiriusXM’s The Lurie Daniel Favors Show.
Crockett previously expressed openness to running for her redrawn district, but her entry into the Senate race would shake up a Democratic contest for a seat the party has long sought to flip. She’d join the likes of declared candidates state Rep. James Talarico, former Rep. Colin Allred, who lost last year to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and former NASA astronaut Terry Virts. Former congressman and 2018 Democratic nominee Beto O’Rourke is also weighing a run.
Crockett said she’s seen polling that “makes it clear that I can win the primary” and will conduct more of her own to overcome what she described as inaccurate survey methods.
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“I am looking, because if you want to take my seat of 766,000 [constituents] away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that, to where I take your seat that is for 30 million away,” she said.
Cornyn is fighting for reelection against state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX).
