Do we like Jasmine Crockett?
Our score: 6 out of 10. Solid on LGBTQ+ people and a record of fighting the other side, but contested remarks and unresolved allegations about her office keep her mid-table.
Crockett is a former civil rights attorney whose combative takedowns of Donald Trump built her national profile. In December 2025 she filed for the Texas Senate race with a message aimed straight at him: “You're not entitled to a damn thing in Texas.” Some national Democrats were privately cool on the move, and Republican Sen. John Cornyn said she was not electable.
She lost. James Talarico won the March 2026 Democratic primary, 52.4 per cent to her 46.2, per Fox News. Months later she told a podcast at Essence Festival the race was a racist one, saying “It was a racist race”, and that she didn't need to campaign with him. Her critics called it sour grapes; she says people hold her to a different standard.
On the harm test, she's mostly on the right side. Her website says she wants to pass protections covering marriage equality, gender-affirming care and anti-discrimination. In a March interview with The 19th she condemned the wave of anti-trans bills, saying “Find the little trans child that is ruining your life.” The blemish was a jab at Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'butch' body, which she later said was meant to do no harm to the community.
The bigger stoush was a 2024 Vanity Fair interview where she said of Latinos who voted for Trump: “It's almost like a slave mentality that they have.” Pressed by Jake Tapper on CNN, she said she did not mean every Latino. On a San Antonio tour she said “There was never an intent to actually offend somebody.” Where you land depends on whether you hear a clumsy line about self-hatred or a put-down of a whole community.
The good-person question is messier. The New York Post first reported, citing several aides, that she screams at staff, is rarely in her Washington office unless cameras are rolling, and once made a staffer cry. Gay staffers also allegedly objected to her 'butch' comment about Greene, and she allegedly dismissed them. This is anonymous sourcing, and Fox News said it got no reply from her office, so it stays an allegation.
Her floor speeches can also outrun her facts. In November 2025 she said she had found Republican donations from Jeffrey Epstein in FEC records, but the Zeldin donations she cited came from a different Jeffrey Epstein, a physician, as Zeldin and critics from both parties pointed out. In fairness, she's also a target of fakes: PolitiFact rated a viral claim that she cashes her late grandmother's Social Security cheques Pants on Fire, since it came from a satire site.