Jasmine Crockett Tells Crowd Texas Is About To Turn Blue

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett told supporters Monday that grassroots organizing can flip Texas blue.

Crockett kicked off her Senate bid just days before the state’s filing deadline. During her speech, Crockett said Democratic success will not hinge on a single candidate but on sustained voter engagement.

“Texas turns blue. It won’t be because of any one candidate, but because of each and every one of you doing your part. Turning Texas blue is what I want to talk to y’all about today. Now, there are those that say ‘Ain’t no way, we done tried it 50 kinds of ways,’” Crockett told the crowd.

Crockett cast herself as a different kind of messenger.

“Let me be clear, y’all ain’t never tried it the JC [Jasmine Crockett] way. We used to [people] telling us what I can’t do. But they have no idea what Crockett’s crew will do. And so I just want to be clear for all the haters in the back,” Crockett said. “Listen up real loud. We’re going to get this thing done. So they tell us that Texas is red. They are lying.”

Crockett entered the race after months of publicly floating a Senate bid and saying she would jump in if polling showed a viable route to victory. Her filing came shortly after Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred suspended his campaign Monday morning, avoiding a clash between two Black, Dallas-based Democrats who would have vied for the same core bloc of minority voters.

Allred’s decision to shift toward a Dallas-area House race clears a smoother runway for Crockett, though she still faces a competitive primary from Texas state legislator James Talarico, whom many Democrats view as an emerging figure in the party.

President Donald Trump carried Texas with 6,393,597 votes, or 56.14% of the statewide total, defeating former Vice President Kamala Harris by roughly 1.56 million votes. The last Democratic presidential nominee to win Texas was Jimmy Carter in 1976, meaning no Democrat has carried the state in nearly five decades.