Crockett weighing possible Texas Senate bid

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday said she is examining a Senate bid in the Lone Star state following the Republicans’ redistricting effort there earlier this year.

“Every other day there’s a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas,” Crockett said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Lurie Daniel Favors Show.”

“And I am looking. Because if you want to take my seat of 766,000 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 added. 

Crockett has garnered praise and criticism in equal measure as she’s emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s most vocal Trump critics. She was also national campaign co-chair for former Vice President Harris’s presidential bid last year.

The Texas representative said she’s taken initial steps to gauge her support in Texas.

“We are doing some testing here shortly to see if I can expand the electorate…. And I think that the key to winning Texas isn’t about looking at the current electorate. It’s about expanding the electorate,” she told Favors. 

Earlier this year, Crockett dropped out of the race to become the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.

Still, she said she’s ready to take strides towards joining the upper chamber.

The Texas Democrat on Wednesday said, ​​”the question will be whether or not we believe that we’ve got enough juice to expand the electorate and looking at those cross tabs and looking at which demographics are more inclined to come out, who normally do not vote.” 

“If we can expand the electorate, then I will strongly be considering hopping in the Senate race,” she added. 

Currently, there are two Black women in the Senate, Sens. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), which is the most in the history of Congress.