Posted on 12/16/2025 11:44:06 AM PST by Baladas
The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be a good one for the Democratic Party. They are overperforming in special elections and off-year contests up and down the ballot. Their lead in the generic ballot poll is growing, albeit marginally, and they may even be winning the gerrymandering battle.
But they have a tougher task ahead as they try to win back the U.S. Senate, an institution that has long had a pro-rural bias and where Republicans have increasingly built an edge. For Democrats to flip the chamber, they’ll not only have to defend all of their current seats and win two Republican-held “toss-up” seats, which would get them to 49. They must also pick up at least two more seats1 from states that voted for Trump by double digits just last year, such as Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, or Texas.
One of those states, however, may already be in jeopardy. Last week, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett announced her candidacy for the Texas Senate race. One of the most liberal members during her time in the Texas House, Crockett has made a name for herself since arriving in Washington in 2023, largely by grabbing the spotlight and lobbing rhetorical bombs in every direction.
In some of her more notable statements, she:
Mocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott for using a wheelchair, leading to pushback from disability-rights organizations;
Said that Hispanics who voted for Trump—roughly 50 percent of the Hispanic electorate in Texas—have a “slave mentality”;
Incorrectly accused that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on the floor of Congress of taking money from Jeffrey Epstein (and later claimed she never made that accusation);
Dismissed white critics of DEI programming as “mediocre white boys”;
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is there a side by side of crockett with
her real and fake accent
I’ve been pointing it out for a while now, that RATS have been trying to turn Texas blue for a long time, and that’s where our focus should be, but yet there are idiots on this site who think that Ukraine, a country the same size as Texas that sits 5,000 miles away is far more important to wage war over.
bflr
Their lead in the generic ballot poll is growing.
Like Rush noted some of them can send out a thousand reply’s at a time.
It’s another internet gig.
WTF? Can we then say states like California, NY and Illinois have a "pro-urban bias"??
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