Rep. Jasmine Crockett has no shot of winning Texas Senate race

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Friday, February 13, 2026 00:04
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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, February 12, 2026 6:34 PM

this is supposed to be the section for movies

political movies?

Reagan, something funded by the Obama's or the Melania film 2026? or
Melania film 2026 or Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11

and it seems Hollyweird is all over the Epstein Files

but anyways

Jasmine Crockett vs Pam Bondi dual scream screen showing reactions and shouting

does politics really work in the movie cinema section of this site???

SECOND

Thursday, February 12, 2026 11:06 PM

The Houston Chronicle recommends that Texas Democrats should make James Talarico their Senate candidate, NOT Jasmine Crockett

Feb 3, 2026

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/endorsements/article/talarico
-crockett-democratic-primary-texas-2026-21329484.php

Democrats should take notes.

Stop running candidates who excite the base but lose in the general. Give up on the illusion that demographics is destiny. Do whatever it takes to secure the narrow plurality required to win in November. And lean into the metrics.

On that topic, the national data is clear: Moderate candidates, if they can make it out of primaries, enjoy a small but notable general election advantage over their more ideological counterparts. And Talarico, 36, is running as an inspiring yet pragmatic reformer. His chief opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, 44, is a prominent member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Political scientists and baseball nerds alike call it “win above replacement” — how a candidate performs compared with a generic alternative. By that measure, moderates outperform progressives, according to Lakshya Jain, who analyzes data for The Argument. Plenty of Democrats balk at this argument, driven by understandable passion about an out-of-control White House to back candidates willing to throw bare-knuckle punches — rhetorical or otherwise. Voters disillusioned with their own party’s failures to defeat President Donald Trump see much to like in Crockett’s willingness to get just as crude and crass as our insulter-in-chief.

Meanwhile, nobody really knows what electability looks like in Texas because Democrats remain a generation removed from a statewide win. Still, we see campaigns come closest when they convince some Republicans to cross over — and only Talarico is working to assemble that coalition like Beto O’Rourke did in 2018.

Yes, research finds the gap between progressives and moderates isn’t huge. Current polls show Talarico and Crockett as basically tied in a matchup with a Republican. Data sets for elections are relatively small — nowhere near baseball’s 162-game season. And Talarico is hardly a conservative. But Democrats are at risk of letting a potential wave year go to waste. O’Rourke lost by just three points in 2018. A few thousand voters on the margins might decide whether President Donald Trump gets another two years to reshape the federal judiciary with his hand-picked choices.

Talarico offers Democrats their best chance to change direction — because he’s running a campaign that starts from an unblinking assessment of political reality. Texas is a red state. Any Democrat who wins statewide will have to persuade at least some Republicans to cross over.

That’s why Talarico isn’t running simply as a Democrat trying to beat a Republican. Talarico is running as a Texan taking on corruption in Washington.

In fact, ethics reform sits at the core of Talarico’s campaign: banning corporate PACs and super PACs; imposing term limits; mandating in-person town halls; ending partisan gerrymandering by both major parties; establishing enforceable ethics rules for the U.S. Supreme Court; and outlawing congressional stock trading.

“Do I believe that people who hold positions of public trust, especially in our federal government, especially in the executive branch, do I believe they need to be held accountable for any abuses of power? Of course!” Talarico told the editorial board. “I think that is not a partisan statement. That should be true of Democratic public officials. It should be true of Republican public officials.”

These aren’t the usual go-to issues for Texas Democrats — in fact, plenty of union leaders and longtime incumbents might balk at his attacks on PACs and congressional stock trading. But they are precisely the kinds of ideas that resonate with voters across party lines — the sort of ideas that would play well in November, whether running against longtime Sen. John Cornyn or scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Throughout the campaign, Talarico has shown a knack fo

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 13, 2026 12:04 AM

Well... Crockett is an absolute shit-show, but it hardly matters who is running Democrat on that ticket.

Zero percent chance of a Democrat win no matter who is running.

Just a lot less comedy if they fire the ghetto-trash DEI hire.

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