MS Now Host Gives Jasmine Crockett Chance To Outline Policy Agenda — She Fails

MS NOW host Catherine Rampell provided Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett a chance to outline her policy platform for her Senate campaign on Sunday, in which the congresswoman failed to provide a detailed agenda.

Crockett launched her Senate campaign on Dec. 8, delivering a roughly 40-minute speech the same day. Rampell said on “The Weekend Primetime” that Crockett’s speech was light on policy and requested that she expand with “a couple of other examples” on what she would focus on if she were to win her race, but the candidate named only one concrete example despite rambling for two minutes.

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“I think we need to raise the minimum wage. Um, we have not done that in a national way, and so Texas is not taking it upon themselves. So the minimum wage is still $7.25,” Crockett said. “We can start to go ahead and put more money into working people’s pockets. And whether you’re a minimum wage worker or otherwise, we know that once you raise the minimum wage, everyone else’s wages go up.”

“We know that costs are going up to the extent that we know that when people were showing up in those food lines as the president was sending $40 billion over to Argentina instead of making sure that people that are supposed to get their SNAP benefits had their money,” she continued. “We know that there were a lot of working-class people.”

Crockett then criticized her state’s senators for voting to make President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent