Why Jasmine Crockett lost the Dem primary to James Talarico
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Via: sparty-on • 8 months ago • 50 commentsBy: Kayla Guo (The Texas Tribune)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
When U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett jumped into the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas, she was the immediate frontrunner.
Widely known and beloved by Democratic voters, Crockett had a record of strong fundraising in the U.S. House and a knack for going viral with her brassy quips aimed at Republican foes. Her lead opponent, state Rep. James Talarico of Austin, was on the rise but lesser known among voters outside of Central Texas. Former congressman and 2024 Senate Democratic nominee Colin Allred was a rerun, who dropped out of the race in the hours before she launched.
Early Wednesday, Crockett lost the nomination to Talarico by a decisive margin — the result of a fiercely competitive primary that overwhelmed the Dallas congresswoman's starting assets and tested the power of political celebrity among Texas Democrats. Her loss reflected both the strength of Talarico's campaign and her own team's inability to scale in time for such an expensive and hotly contested statewide race.
From the start, four people familiar with her campaign said, Crockett's team deprioritized the primary race, confident that her name recognition and reputation as a fighter in Congress would be impossible for Talarico to catch up with, and would carry her to the general election. So she embarked on a primary battle with a makeshift operation that lacked a campaign manager, a developed fundraising strategy and comprehensive infrastructure for a ground game.
"What happened with Jasmine was that name ID can only take you so far," said Monique Alcala, the former executive director of the Texas Democratic Party. "You actually have to have a real campaign operation, and actually engage in measurable campaign tactics. I don't think that we ever saw that come together throughout the entire time that she was running."
Crockett still put up a strong showing at the ballot box, winning over a million votes — 46% of ballots cast — and ginning up enthusiasm among the Democratic base, particularly Black voters.
But she was unable to run up the score where she needed to in Texas' biggest and most diverse cities. At the same time, Talarico trounced in his political home base in Central Texas, and with voters in heavily Latino counties — a crucial, swingy voting bloc in the general electorate.
Crockett's relative lack of an apparatus made a difference, especially against a candidate who entered the race three months before she did and built up significant media, fundraising, volunteer and events operations, and whose political persona cultivated its own kind of gravitational pull.
"This was a close race, and so I don't want to sound like she ran a bad campaign," Democratic strategist Matt Angle said. "She just ran into a guy who ran a really good campaign. And it's a really good sign for Democrats that James wasn't just a personality that caught fire — he had a plan, and he carried it out."
Crockett declined an interview request. Campaign spokesperson Karrol Rimal declined to comment, citing "party unity," but he insisted that the number of votes Crockett earned per dollar spent was crucial to any post-election analysis of her campaign.
A member of Crockett's inner campaign circle, who asked not to be named so they could speak candidly, acknowledged the campaign's reliance on her popularity and relative lack of infrastructure, but pushed back on the idea that she did not run a strong campaign, noting that she invested in advertising and turnout operations at a greater level than past statewide Democratic campaigns, which were not nearly as competitive as this cycle's.
Ultimately, Talarico and his super PAC massively outspent Crockett, dropping an unprecedented amount of money in a statewide Democratic primary that she could not counter.
"That was the thing that we saw happening the whole time," Crockett's team member said, "and you just can't really overcome that."
Campaign infrastructure
Crockett's challenges started with timing. Her decision to jump into the race so last minute — on the last day candidates could file in December — shortened her runway to build out a campaign that could face off in such a heated, expensive contest.
Competitive candidates for statewide office typically start planting the seeds of their campaign months, if not years, in advance, wooing donors, building relationships with political allies around the state, developing their email list and putting together a potential team.
But while Crockett had considered higher office — as popular politicians do — she had not been actively setting up a campaign before she launched, the member of her team said, forcing her to build up an organization in a matter of months.
"I don't fault her for her campaign," Chuck Rocha, a senior adviser on Talarico's campaign, said in an interview Tuesday before the election results rolled in. "She had the benefit of having the name ID, but … she's building the plane while she's flying it."
Notably, Crockett did not have a campaign manager for the entirety of her run, and while she delegated components of her campaign to trusted advisers, she largely managed operations herself. Her team member described her leadership style as a hub and spokes, rather than the more traditional top-down pyramid structure of most campaigns. That stood in contrast with Talarico's campaign, which built out teams with dozens of salaried staffers in Texas, according to his most recent federal spending report.
A Democratic strategist briefed directly by Crockett said she indicated shortly after her campaign launch that Jason Lee, a senior adviser to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and son of the late U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, was on deck to run the campaign, but he never came through. In January, the strategist learned that Crockett was expecting Lee to come for the general election. Lee did not respond to an interview request.
"I was told they would not hire some consultants until after the primary," said Dallas Jones, a Democratic strategist. "It was my understanding that all these things would happen after the primary, and now it appears that it's not going to happen at all."
With less time and fundraising to power her run, the campaign focused its energy on TV and digital advertising — instead of staffing up or building out a massive field operation.
Though she barnstormed the state and met voters at the polls during the 11-day early voting period, her campaign up until that point had largely been made up of appearances at churches, local businesses and events hosted by other groups, like unions and Black sororities.
The Crockett team member said the congresswoman wanted to meet Texans where they were outside of political settings, instead of bringing them to her events.
Crockett planned to get around the state more after she secured the nomination and while Republicans were duking it out in a runoff election,said a Democratic strategist who spoke to her directly about the matter.
"To her own admittance, Congresswoman Crockett wanted to launch and run a campaign that was different," said Jones, noting her emphasis on in-person politicking at smaller venues like bars and churches over standard campaign rallies and events. "It was a very untraditional campaign in how it was ran and in many ways experimental."
"If that is the case," he added, "then we would now say the experiment did not work."
Crockett's ground game also paled in comparison to Talarico's, who has said he saw his bid as the "underdog" campaign.
Crockett largely relied on organizations that endorsed her, such as Jolt Action and Texas Organizing Project, for get-out-the-vote tactics like door-to-door canvassing, in place of a robust in-house operation to turn out her voters.
The Crockett team member said that her campaign invested in Black voter turnout through blockwalking, virtual town halls, robocalls, Black radio stations and efforts on digital platforms to target infrequent Black Democratic voters.
In contrast, Talarico brought tens of thousands of Texans out to rallies and events his campaign put on around the state after he launched his bid in September. His campaign recruited 28,000 volunteers, contacted voters in all 254 counties in Texas and hosted more than 560 voter mobilization events in 75 cities throughout the race, according to a Saturday news release. In the four days before election day, his campaign and its volunteers blitzed 40 cities with 130 events.
He also had a clear-cut plan to win Latino voters in particular, running ads and social media content in Spanish, campaigning with Tejano music star Bobby Pulido in South Texas and closing his campaign with an ad featuring Latino influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina.
"He won because he showed up in communities, he ran advertising in those communities, he had an amazing field team," Rocha said on social media Wednesday. "It's grassroots organizing combined with paid advertising in digital, TV, radio around sporting events, and a robust Latino advertising campaign."
Fundraising
Further into the campaign, Crockett suffered from relatively lackluster fundraising. She raised $8.6 million over the course of her bid, more than half of which she transferred from her House committee — a total haul dwarfed by Talarico's more than $20 million take.
That drove a major spending deficit on advertising. Crockett spent $4.8 million on advertising, which would have been an impressive spend for a Democratic primary candidate in Texas, if not for Talarico.
Starting in January, Talarico's campaign and his super PAC collectively unleashed $25.9 million on ads through election day, outspending Crockett and her super PAC nearly five-to-one. Talarico and his super PAC together raised more than $27.2 million through the start of the year.
Crockett's team member recalled wondering how long Talarico could maintain his spending momentum. But as he continued to flood the airwaves, Crockett's internal polling began to show Talarico narrowing the name recognition gap and winning some of her supporters, particularly white women, to his side.
"The fact that he did stay up at that level every week — you see the buy come in at a million dollars a week — all of a sudden, you're like, 'Okay, this is gonna make a big difference,'" the team member said.
Meanwhile, Crockett's only broadcast spot, the biggest avenue for campaigns to get their message out, came five days into early voting, according to media tracking firm AdImpact. The super PAC in her corner fizzled, dropping just under $600,000 on ads supporting her and opposing Talarico.
Over the course of his campaign, Talarico invested $5.7 million in digital fundraising, hiring Aisle 518, a firm whose clients have included California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Ruben Gallego of Arizona, to build out the operation.
Alcala, the former state party director, added that donors she spoke to in Texas, most of whom had backed Allred, did not express "any strong sense of enthusiasm" for Crockett's candidacy.
"People related to James a lot more," she said. "The donor class is not hyper progressive, as Jasmine presents herself."
Talarico's campaign also appealed to some donors who were backing Allred to stay on the sidelines or support his bid after the former Dallas congressman dropped out of the race, according to two Democratic strategists familiar with the conversations.
Colbert bump
Beyond his campaign infrastructure, the race frequently broke Talarico's way, such as when late night host Stephen Colbert accused CBS of nixing their interview together because of new guidance from the Trump administration, turning Talarico into a national headline and an instant foil to President Donald Trump — catnip in Democratic primary elections.
The interview, posted on the eve of the early voting period, garnered 9.1 million views on YouTube and raised Talarico $2.5 million in the 24 hours after.
Put up against Talarico's populist message of a "politics of love" and his campaign operation, Crockett's popularity and appeal as a partisan warrior ultimately came up short at the ballot box.
"Talarico's apparent win shows that campaign fundamentals still matter and having the better ground game, especially in Hispanic areas, was crucial," Jessica Taylor, an editor at The Cook Political Report, said on social media. "His $$ advantage on air mattered, and the Colbert bump in organic search didn't hurt either clearly."
Going into the general election, Talarico will have to win over Crockett's base of mostly Black voters, while facing a barrage of attacks Republicans began unleashing even before the race was called.
Republican National Committee spokesperson Zach Kraft called Talarico a "woke nutjob" that Texans would reject. Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton were headed to a May runoff election after neither won 50% of votes on Tuesday, though President Donald Trump shook up that possibility by dangling an endorsement and saying the candidate he does not pick should drop out of the race.
In a statement conceding the race Wednesday, Crockett offered a message of unity and said she would "continue working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot."
"Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person," she said. "With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win."
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Excellent news but it sounds like the guy who beat her is an even bigger loon.
He's a "second sentence loon".
He starts with a standard message that actually causes you to pause and think, "this guy might be OK". And then he follows that in the second sentence with insane batshittery.
So sentence 1 might be something about middle class tax relief and the importance of the separation of church and state, and then sentence two is about how there are 6 genders and we should open the border.
Context? He said he was shocked to find that there are 6 genders by DNA but only two sexes.
As far as politicians goes he seems like a legitimately nice guy.
The NY Times has published something positive about a liberal?? Who saw that coming?
Nope, he is a reasonable ex-teacher with a degree in theology and a down to earth demeanor who has been a decent Texas House member for 8 years.
... sane, by comparison to the majority.
Another case where opinions do vary. You defend him simply because he is liberal. I call him a loon because of some of his positions. Specifically his positions on gender and the border. With positions like that, I’m his lunacy goes much deeper.
Much deeper.
I thought he was a baby-faced sacrificial lamb until I saw him in Texas House hearings quoting the Bible to keep the cross, the ten commandments and the Bible out of every public school classroom. He used the New Testament teachings to make his case, which he won in a Republican House that has a 33/18 (R) majority.
He is equally eloquent about public school funding vs the Abbot voucher give away.
He said he was shocked to find that per bona fide scientific DNA studies there are 6 XY combinations that determine gender but there are only two sexes.
He was fighting the idea that Texas could bar anyone who isn't XX or XY from competing in public school sports .As for the border comment
Context matters.
Is Joe Rogan a liberal now?
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I'm guessing there's a word or two missing there but it is immaterial.Talarico is a great candidate. I don't know if he has a chance in Texas, but it would be awesome if he pulls it off and wins.
Yes. He's always been a liberal. So has Bill Maher. They still are. Rogan was a Bernie supporter, FFS.
They've just been run out of the religion because they refused to go along with some of the utter insanity current liberals demand they adopt. They failed the purity test for pointing out that the party was leaving common sense in the rearview, so now they're branded as nazis or whatever the bullshit moniker of the day is.
He's the best Democrat we've seen in Texas in a long while. He's an incredibly mediocre candidate, but we've elected those before.
A lot of it has to do with who wins the runoff election on the Republican side. It's definitely improbable. The polling will probably make him look like he's doing better than he actually is, simply because they don't seem to poll rural areas very accurately, and that's where the Republicans thrive.
lol, my opinion “here” means the same as yours. Since “here” isn’t Texas that is.
And good luck with Beto 2.0. You are gonna need it.
Except for when he supported Trump 2.0? The cracks started with Goodes death and shattered after Pretti's demise.
Then he hosted RFK JR for some reason and the backlash was not pretty but he still would not condemn Trump until they bombed Venezuela, now Iran.
Rogan was Trump's guest at several UFC fights (FFS) and he was Trump's favorite for Harris's refusal to interview on Rogan's pro Trump pod cast (FFS).
But Trump's memory is getting shorter than a goldfish's; now Rogan, no fan of Biden's age or suspected dementia is comparing Trump unfavorably to Biden.
That's someone who sounds like a flaky independent rather than a card carrying "liberal".
Your fellow liberals have been telling you for years that Democrats have moved so far left they can no longer go along. Not that anyone in the party has listened.
And yet you still insist on ideological purity tests. God forbid they make up their own mind about individual issues.
There are plenty of reasons to oppose the war in Iran. There are also plenty of reasons to support it. Rinse and repeat for the arrest of Maduro.
What did Harris invite him to? Why didn't Harris do the podcast? (these questions are traps, BTW)
Oh.... so maybe his IS liberal after all. No... he seems to be thinking for himself.. never mind.
What's happened to you? Why all the liberal calling and liberal shaming and liberal this and that?
Yeah me too.
They all want to be able to equate MAGA to liberals , I guess to say they are all the same. Bothsideism.
I believe both Maher and Rogan would describe themselves as libertarians.
The question is "what's happened to you?".... with the "you" being those people who used to be intelligent, mainstream Democrats.
Listen to yourselves. You criticize and denigrate people who were once strong supporters of the Democratic Party (add Elon to that list), because they commit the unpardonable sin of thinking for themselves and developing an opinion that deviates from the most militant extremists. (add James Carville to the list, while we're at it)
Deporting illegal immigrants, keeping men out of women's locker rooms, locking up repeat offenders, and believing black people are capable of obtaining photo ID are now considered "right wing" ideas only held by "Nazis". Never mind that nobody deported more people than Obama and nobody incarcerated more than Clinton.
It's like current liberal orthodoxy is coming from a group of junior high school cheerleaders who think things only begin when they learn about them and if you don't validate every single thing they say you're out of the clique.
Lloyd Bentsen and Bob Bullock are rolling over in their graves.
Agree
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That's some batshit crazy reposting of some very biased newsource and making it racial to boot but it does have a right wing bias.
The Nazi BS is for ICE and the lack of restraint they have exhibited in 2025 & 2026 and maybe those who swear ICE did nothing wrong.
I don't judge them by the emotional BS of social media but they are clearly not regarded well by the public recently.
I have an in law who just completed 30 years with HSI and he is neither a racist or a thug.
The claim has been that minorities, the very poor, and really old people may not have birth certificates or have or need passports ala the "SAVE ACT".
Prior to that legislation, I think independents, Democrats and "others" are just tired of Republicans trying to reach a level of purity in election fraud when their
constituents were the worst offenders in2016 to 2024.
306 convictions for voter fraud in 2016 and 2020, (many of them here in Texas because the Dept of Corrections gave the wrong advice to ex guests)
out of 295, 214,000 votes cast for a whopping 0.00000103653620763 percentage doesn't indicate a problem or a need for every state to bow to Federal guidelines.
The Fed was designed to respect State's Rights. Please feel free to check my math.
Agreed, but how many American citizens did ICE kill in public while driving a car during their 16 years? Granted, everyone has a smart phone now and that makes
them public journalists when they record these public ICE incidents.
ICE has a terrible reputation as far back as when it was made part of DHS.
More people died under Obama while in ICE custody which makes sense for the Deporter in Chief. There was legislation under Trump in 2018 demanding more
accountability but ICE just manipulates the data, "releasing patients from custody" when they were in a coma and died shortly thereafter to avoid counting them was
apparently, an acceptable practice, as was transferring them terminal patients to a hospital shortly before death.
Quoting people like Schumer and AOC is now 'right wing bias'? Voter ID is "the new Jim Crow", haven't you heard?
Today a jury convicted 9 "people" for a coordinated ambush on an ICE facility in Alvarado. LW morons protested outside with signs demanding that they be freed.
I know what the arguments are. They're nonsense, they're racist, they're patronizing and they're insulting to black people. They are textbook liberal white savior arguments. Even CNN says 76% of black Americans support voter ID.
Right. You're about to tell me that if even one person can't vote because of voter ID, that's too many. BTW, if you outlaw all the radar guns, you'll write less speeding tickets. Convictions are only a valid statistic if we're looking for the crime.
More than you may realize.
How many tried to obstruct them, refused to follow lawful orders, and then drove off endangering officers?
Here's where we separate the adults from the children: If you do something stupid, you are not immune from all responsibility if the situation your stupidity caused goes horribly wrong. Accountability cannot only be for people on "the other side".
If you storm the US Capitol, you are partially responsible for getting yourself shot. Indeed you should expect to get shot, and be astonished if you don't.
If, while you are participating in a riot, you attack a gunman with a skateboard, you bear some culpability for what happens next.
If you obstruct law enforcement and behave dangerously, you are not blameless in your own demise.
None of those people should have been killed. And..... None of those people should have been there .
That is not an excuse to obstruct them, burn their cars in the street, or threaten their families, or march into their churches and verbally abuse their toddlers.
And here I thought it was because her role on The Muppet Show.
It’s a democrat primary so racially polarized voting told the tale. Whites and Hispanics voted for telerico, blacks for Crockett.
And as noted he outspent Crockett like five to one. Plus he got a Colbert bump.
Money talks, less crazy walks …..
less crazy walks.
truly a miracle when Crockett might be the saner one.
Nonsense.
Crocket would have won 80/20 if that claim was even remotely close.
Blacks account for less than 12% of the voters here in the Lone Star State.
The reality: absolutely massive racial splits among Democratic voters:
Talarico’s support is driven by white voters, leading Crockett 71% to 29%, Hispanic voters, 60% to 39%.
Crockett led 80% to 18% among blacks.
Why would anyone be surprised that a party that emphasizes race identity politics splits that way?
welcome to this week's featured race baiting article -
please allow me to maga translate ...
up is down, black is white, it sucks being brown, cuz white is always right ... /s
So your earlier statement was a lie, got it. Statistically Crocket got plenty of white and Hispanic votes, basic math.
The plain truth is that Talerico was a fresh face with an old but not angry message and he out raised his opponent with grass roots donations and he outworked her in
all 254 counties and Democrats came out in unheard of numbers to vote in a primary.
Crocket had no campaign manager, no campaign financing plan, and thought name recognition would be enough. She clearly didn't try hard enough initially.
Crocket's base was in her Dalls District 30 which she only won with 59% of the vote and Houston which she narrowly won 51.5%.
Talarico took Austin and San Antonio by 75.6% and 57% respectively plus most of the western and southern counties.
Why would anyone couch such a vile lie into a question like that?
When your argument is lacking information do you always pull out the race card?
Yeah, must be new math then because Sean’s post clearly defines how the majority of voters broke and who they voted for. The data shows his comment was spot on.
Stop trying to muddy the waters with bullshit word games.
Lol. That's your plan? Pretend to not understand what I was talking about? Not a great look for you.
Why would anyone couch such a vile lie into a question like that?
The lie is pretending Democrats don't emphasize racial identity.
our argument is lacking information
I provided information and more than made my point. Keep up.
That's laughable because exit polls aren't fact and people lie all the time.
Let me dumb it down for you a bit.
This was a primary; which by Texas standards had a good turnout with about 2.3 million votes cast. Crocket only got 1,068,000 votes and lost.
There are 18.5 million registered Texas voters and over 11% are black = 2.35 million black voters.
Demographically Blacks have the highest rate of registration at 71.5%.
If this was a racist campaign, driven by race or racial representation, where was the black vote for Crocket?
I will tell you they stayed home because as is mentioned in the seed, she ran a terrible campaign. Period.
Did she ever make a racist appeal to black voters?
No, her main claim to fame was as an angry US House Rep irritating the GOP and being a personal PITA to Trump and now, she wants to do it as a Senator?
No one, white, black Hispanic or Asian was impressed.
By Sean's racial accusations she should have had 2 million black votes plus the white and Hispanic votes and clocked Talerico 3 million to 1 million.
Basic Math, Period.
Fuzzy information, lol.
And the same answer to you
That's laughable because exit polls aren't fact and people lie all the time.
Let me dumb it down for you a bit.
This was a primary; which by Texas standards had a good turnout with about 2.3 million votes cast. Crocket only got 1,068,000 votes
There are 18.5 million registered Texas voters and over 11% are black = 2.35 million black voters.
Demographically Blacks have the highest rate of registration at 71.5%.
If this was a racist campaign, driven by race or racial representation, where was the black vote for Crocket?
I will tell you that they stayed home because, as is mentioned in the seed, she ran a terrible campaign. Period.
Did she ever make a racist appeal to black voters?
No, her main claim to fame was as an angry US House Rep irritating the GOP and being a personal PITA to Trump and now, she wants to do it as a Senator.
No one, white, black Hispanic or Asian was impressed.
By your racial accusations she should have had 2 million black votes plus the white and Hispanic votes and clocked Talerico 3 million to 1 million.
Basic Math, Period.
They didn't turn out. That's the point.
It was absolutely a campaign based primarily on race and gender.
Why would we assume that only impact black voters. Affluent, middle aged, liberal white women have been responding to that whistle for decades.
Young people and Latinos preferred Talarico. They want somebody who might actually have a chance in November and they're as tire as rest of us of being told who all is "afraid of a strong black woman".
That's a hilarious move of the goalpost. She accused Talarico supporters of being racist, she talked about "mediocre white boys", tried to deflect any and all criticism as "racist dog whistles", and said Latinos had a "slave mentality".
She's the worst kind of racist piece of shit, and the intelligent side of the party finally stepped up and told her to fuck off.
Of course unless the exit polls support one of your candidates or narratives du jour in which case they become fact.
And keep the thinly veiled insults coming. I eat em up like Jr Mints. Very refreshing.
Thank you Sean.
Lol. What an argument . I don't like evidence so it's fake.
st campaign, driven by race or racial representation, where was the black vote for Crocket?
Are you not paying attention? She got 80% of the black vote. Talerico got 70% of the white vote. But sure, race has nothing to do with it. Whites still make up the plurality of Democratic primary voters in Texas, hence Talerico wins.
cial accusations she should have had 2 million black votes
What are you even talking about? Turnout for the democratic primary was higher than usual and so was the share of black voters. Are you seriously arguing there isn't a racial divide in the results because every single black voter in Texas didn't vote for Crockett? Laughable.
Basic Math, Period.
It sure is. Try and pay attention to it.
Yes, and in virtually every Republican race they get close to 100% of their white voters voting for the white candidate which are almost all they have in their primaries these days.
Republican race they get close to 100% of their white voters
nope
Hatred for white people doesn't sell well statewide in Texas ... Y'all
Hatred for blacks and Latinos sure does, though.
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You are calling millions of people racist.
Just let somebody claim I'm putting words in your mouth.
There is Hal for everyone to see.
How many millions of non-white people that hate white people are you referring to? Talk about an easy rebuttal.
I clearly called Jasmine Crockett a racist. You called the entire state of Texas racist
Are you going to be able to defend yourself or do you need a defender?
Are you going to be able to defend yourself or do you need a defender?
Sure am. Please point to where I said or implied “the whole state of Texas is racist.”
good point. You are probably just referring to the Democratic primary voters who split so sharply along racial lines.
Where? was that what you were implying in #4 ? She's a very public figure and it's ok if that's your opinion.
No he didn't, he implied that somebody hates Blacks and Hispanics and it sells well, which is also not true.
Why don't you figure it out?
Add to that the percentage of white who are married to Hispanics...
YOU implied that Texas is a white state but it really isn't.
If race were an actual issue, Crocket should have won. 60/40
after living in south texas, I would've guessed a higher percentage of 2 or more races.
I guess there's a reason DFW ballots are in Vietnamese, English and Spanish.
Democrats should be happy. The last thing they need is adding Crockett as one of the main faces of the Dem party.