Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is catching hell from her own party — and this time it's a former Democratic colleague doing the torching.
Former Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., who served three terms in Congress, unloaded on Crockett in a profane post on X after Crockett's Feuling Individual Rights Everywhere (FIRE) PAC rolled out a list of 14 endorsed Texas candidates Monday that conspicuously left off James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, according to Fox News Politics.
"F--- her. That's all I can say. And that statement has nothing to do with blind loyalty to Dems," Wild wrote. "It has everything to do with her being a narcissistic drama queen who has used her platform (such as it is) only to advance herself. Karma will suck."
That's not a quiet disagreement. That's a former member of Congress telling the country exactly what she thinks of Crockett's priorities.
The math here isn't complicated. Talarico beat Crockett in the March Democratic Senate primary, taking 53% of the vote to her 45%, per The Nerd Stash. Crockett then urged Democrats to unite behind the party's nominees — while quietly declining to campaign alongside Talarico or put her name anywhere near his. Her PAC's new slate covered city, county, and state legislative races. No statewide candidates. No Talarico.
The Washington Post noted Tuesday that Crockett has stepped back from Texas' high-profile Senate race since losing the primary, and that Talarico is still not on her list. That silence has Democrats who want Republican Ken Paxton beaten in November openly questioning whether the bitter primary fight ever actually ended.
Crockett fired back at her critics Tuesday, and she did it without ever saying the words her party wants to hear. "Y'all are corny! Keep receipts. I'll be happy when people either give a damn about FACTS or news media goes back to the news instead of deciding to ride the tabloid lane," she posted, according to Fox News. Raw Story reported that Crockett lashed out at journalists questioning her support for Talarico — but still stopped short of offering a fresh endorsement of her former rival.
She says she personally congratulated Talarico after the March primary. That's a phone call. It's not a campaign.
This isn't Crockett's first turn in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, and her critics aren't limiting themselves to the endorsement fight. She's previously drawn scrutiny for calling Gov. Greg Abbott, who is permanently in a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels"; for describing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Most recently she took heat for entering Chris Brown into the congressional record during a September concert in Arlington, Texas, honoring his musical legacy despite his 2009 guilty plea for assaulting Rihanna.
Online Democrats fused the two stories together. "She won't endorse the candidate she lost against, but she'll endorse Chris Brown," one commenter wrote, according to The Nerd Stash.
It is not yet known whether Crockett will endorse Talarico before November, or whether her PAC will add any statewide candidates to its slate.
What is known: Texas hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988. If Crockett's grievance costs her party its best-funded shot in a generation, every Democrat who spent Tuesday yelling at her on X already knows who they'll blame.
Our Take
Let's be honest about what just happened here. A sitting congresswoman built a PAC, named it after "individual rights," and then used its endorsement list to settle a personal score from a primary she lost six months ago. That's not ideology. That's ego with a filing deadline.
Patriots, you don't need a secret decoder ring to read this one. The Texas Democratic Party is publicly eating its own because one of its loudest national voices can't stomach boosting the man who beat her fair and square. Susan Wild — a Democrat, not a conservative operative — said the quiet part into a megaphone. When your own former colleagues are dropping f-bombs about your "narcissistic drama queen" routine, the problem isn't the messenger.
And notice what Crockett didn't do in her response. She blamed the media. She called everyone corny. For a politician who built her brand on viral confrontation, the one fight she keeps ducking is the one that would actually help her party win.
Republicans should be rooting for this to drag on until November. Every day Crockett nurses the grudge is a day Texas Democrats spend fighting each other instead of making their case to voters. Ken Paxton doesn't need to lift a finger when the other side is doing the work for him.
So here's the question for every Texas Democrat who spent Tuesday raging at Crockett: if she won't show up for the top of the ticket, why should anyone show up for her?
