Far-Left ‘Squad’ Member Jasmine Crockett Thinks She Has Shot At Higher Office

The crowded Democrat primary contest to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in Texas could soon get messier, with another name potentially in the mix.

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Wednesday that she is considering making a run for Senate during the midterms. Crockett, a two-term lawmaker and a member of the far-left cohort of Democrats known as “the Squad” argued that she could beat out the current field of candidates in the primary, citing recent polling.

“And then the other option is 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 on SiriusXM’s The Lurie Daniel Favors Show while discussing the state’s new congressional map. “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.”

Texas lawmakers redrew the state’s congressional map this summer, positioning Republicans to net as many as five new House seats. The newly-drawn map would nix one Democratic-leaning district around Dallas, forcing Crockett and the two other Dallas-based House Democrats to potentially run against each other to remain in Congress.

Crockett leads a hypothetical Senate primary field with 31% of the vote among likely Democratic primary voters, according to an October University of Houston-Texas Southern University poll.

State Rep. James Talarico and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke both drew 25% support in the survey. Former Rep. Colin Allred, who launched a failed run against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024, registered just 16% support.

O’Rourke has not announced a run and has hinted that he would support Crockett’s candidacy if she chose to enter the race.