(The Hill) – Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, on Monday posted a Senate campaign launch video that features audio of President Trump insulting her.
“Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough,” Crockett wrote in a post on the social platform X on Monday.
Crockett’s post also featured a video in which she is facing sideways while audio clips of Trump talking about her and calling her “low IQ” play. The Texas Democrat then turns to face the camera and smiles, with the end of the video featuring a black screen and the words “CROCKETT FOR U.S. SENATE” and “JasmineForUS.com.”
On Monday, Crockett began a campaign for Sen. John Cornyn’s, R-Texas, seat.
“There are a lot of people that said, ‘You got to stay in the House. We need our voice. We need you there.’ And I understand, but what we need is for me to have a bigger voice,” Crockett, whose star has grown rapidly among House Democrats in the last few years, said amid a campaign event.
Former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) on Monday unveiled that he would be ending his campaign for Texas Senate and making a bid for Texas’s new 33rd Congressional District.
“In the past few days, I’ve come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our Constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlickers [Texas Attorney General Ken] Paxton, Cornyn, or [Texas Rep. Wesley] Hunt,” Allred said in a statement.