Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Monday evening on a Zoom conference that Democrats don’t “have time” to convince voters of their “position” with upcoming elections but should focus on their friends and families.
Democrats have been attempting to find a unifying message to resonate with their base ahead of the midterm elections, as some have criticized progressive policies. Others have blamed the party’s branding and messaging for their 2024 loss. While joining historian Heather Cox Richardson and Katie Paris, founder and CEO of Red Wine & Blue, a nonprofit organization, Crockett spoke about her experience in office and offered advice to women wanting to speak out against the Trump administration.
Toward the end, Paris and Richardson thanked Crockett for her time before the representative jumped in to say they didn’t have to thank her.
“I know you mentioned earlier the distractions, and it has to be us that keeps everything clear-eyed. We can’t allow the distractions to get us lost in the sauce,” Crockett said. “For so many people, especially when I go out and I talk about the various things that we allowed them [Republicans] to distract us with and divide us with.”
“One of the things that I tell people all the time is ‘Tell me what that had to do with the things that matter in your life, whether it was the trans kids,’ right?” Crockett asked. ‘”Tell me if they’re the ones that are firing y’all from y’all’s jobs right now. Tell me if they are the ones that are threatening to take the Medicaid, the Medicare, or the Social Security. Tell me how that impacts.’”
Since former President Donald Trump’s November 2024 win, Crockett has become a vocal critic of the president and said in a March interview that her priority is resisting Trump rather than passing legislation in Congress.
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The Texas representative went on to say that she’s not the “type of person” to “convince” people of her views.
“It’s not that I’m the type of person that tries to convince people that they have to see the world the way I do. I think that’s where we kind of get lost because we want to say this is only right. This is civil rights. This is what we should do, right? But we ain’t got time to convince people of our position,” Crockett said.
“What we do have time to do is just be honest about it and say the reason you may be losing your farm has nothing to do with that trans kid that you thought you were voting against,” Crockett said. “The reason you may be losing your farm has nothing to do with the war, right? Because I know how passionate people were about the war as well.”
In March, Crockett came under fire for calling Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is confined to a wheelchair, “Governor Hot Wheels” and a “hot ass mess.” While Crockett later said on X that she was not referring to the governor’s paraplegic state, the Republican governor shrugged off the comment in a Fox News interview.
“So it is so important that we just take the time and focus [on] our friends and our families and our neighbors and say, ‘Yeah, you know, we see the sideshow that they’re putting on.’ But at the end of the day, you tell me what matters most to you,” Crockett said.
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