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I'm not going to lie. I cried when I read this statement from Jasmine Crockett. These candidates worked their asses off. Ride Or Die baby!!!! RIDE OR DIE!!!

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It is more important than ever for DEMS to stay united‼️ If ur preferred candidate doesn’t win their primary, u need to support the Dem who does! We don’t have the luxury of not voting b/c our candidate didn’t win!! All the Bernie supporters in 2016 sitting out the election is what got us here!

Any views on the campaign that she ran, as I only saw like probably five ads over the past few months. Didn’t hear of any town halls. Hell, my phone didn’t get blown up for a single donation.

No. I know people say that but l would think you should know better. There are two safe Democratic House seats in DFW and Crockett could have had either one. She must have thought she could move up to the Senate but her failure to connect with the Hispanic vote did her in.

I disagree with the assessment that 'the Hispanic vote did her in'. I think Democratic voters were voting strategically. They may have figured Talarico had a better shot of beating a Republican. So the strategy was less about Crockett and more about Texas voters.

It was a gamble she lost. The white-hot GOP’s hatred of her led to a substantial spite work effort to deny her original seat and to screw her out of votes in her strongest county.

Former public defender trial lawyer fighter brilliant I love this lady. Total class act. Her future is very very bright. Talrico it’s good too —just what we need right now

She and James are both class acts! What a nice change for the state of Texas. Unfortunately, I live in Oklahoma and the MAGAts here are still as racist and evil as usual but Texas is giving me a glimmer of hope.

Not a single complaint. No fraud accusations. No whining at all. Jasmine Crocket congratulated her opponent and returned her focus to the job at hand. Her maturity is kind of jarring! Which is very concerning.

Same energy my Texazz friends have. They're standing down until the general. No GOTV work No canvassing No phone banking As far as they're concerned, white folx and Latinos got their guy the nom, it's on them now....

Talarico is a great leader, and the issue is already being adjudicated by the courts. However, with less than 7% votes left to count, Talarico got over 150,000 more votes than Crockett, 6.9 points. A recount would be pointless.

The momentum for Talarico has been going since he famously schooled Republican evangelicals in the Texas lege on their Ten Commandments bill. It was wild after Brendan Carr of the FCC banned his Colbert interview. Crockett is awesome, I LOVE her, but she just never caught up.

I really liked both of them and I'm glad she has rallied behind him. Rep Crockett has a strong voice and I hope she can continue to reach out to folks often left out of Texas politics.

Both candidates deserved to win but only one could. Jasmine is pure class. There are no losers here both are winners. All the best to both in the future. I'm sure we will be hearing from both for many years to come.

Yeah, it gives hope that some Politicians are still about The People... and not just their own careers. Would love to see her back in the House replacing Hakeem Jeffries.

Both Crockett and Tallarico are outstanding candidates and public servants. This is both for America and for the Democratic Party. Hopefully they will both get the chance to run for many more offices. Paxton seems like such a lowlife bottom feeder. I can’t believe anybody would run him. Jr Taco?

If Bernie had conceded immediately and rallied his supporters behind Hillary with strength and conviction like this amazing woman, perhaps we would be in a different predicament. This in spite of the fact she was gerrymandered out of her seat. Pure respect for her.

What smear campaign? Are you referring to the Talarico comments about Allred? How is that a smear campaign? He literally said those words. He needs to be held accountable for saying it. Do I think he’s racist? No; but I do think he said some dumb shit. Y’all move the goal post all the time.

I love Crockett, but I see this as her not giving Republicans what they wanted with their polling place stunt. They wanted to weaken the Dem coalition. Crockett said (with class and grace) fuck that! Her concession was meant to unify Dems and thwart Republicans. 💪👏 It was a strategic move. 👍

The Senate race in Texas proved (for me) that many people have not learned from 2024. Come what may…America has a very hard reckoning coming. At this point, I believe it’s time this nation faced itself.

I love Jasmine and did vote for her. She definitely is one of our future Democrat powerhouses! 💪🏼💙⚖️ She’s got class and grace and she’s smart as hell. We need a 1000 more like her.

She's a class act and I had my hopes for her, but we now all circle our wagons around Talarico for the win. It has started, change. Now we plan, support for the win.

I think both of these candidates were stellar. I don’t live in Texas, but am very excited to see Talarico get into DC and fight back against these fake Christian Republicans. I really hope Jasmine stays in the fight somehow because she is amazing in the House and on the oversight committee.

I guess, she’s doing just what they set her up to do and I don’t understand why people are not outrage how thousands of people of color votes were denied through chaos and confusion. She didn’t just regularly lost to him. Her votes were stolen.! where is the outrage? Blk women we need to be done 🗳️🚮

SO sorry to see her go! Talarico will just be another do nothing white guy - sick to death of them - Ms. Crockett was great - Texans suck - sorry but they do - how high exactly is the illiteracy in that state? 48%? illiteracy hurts the country

Hey Paul, they really did but biz of having women-Hillary, Kamala, Jasmine-paving way then have a man, usually white, steps n to take credit & I encountered some of those minogynoir lefty boys yesterday trying to discredit her: those sad boys r up there w GOP white women for most despicable cohort

I don't trust Talarico one bit. I'm incredibly disappointed. Crockett was our best choice. But much like Bernie Sanders, we just don't get to enjoy nice things. It's Texas. We get gas stations and evangelicals.

Texas made it loud and clear in 2024 that an intelligent, highly qualified, black female professional had no chance to win. Obama never won Texas. Twice. Racism, Christian bigotry, and misogyny are still huge hurdles for any woman running for statewide office in Texas. It’s a painful fact.

That's really all it boils down to. I want to blame the gerrymandering, but it really is the people. I see too many of them daily to cling to naivety.

And that's how you do it! I will miss her Boss Lady energy, and don't really trust anyone as religious as the other guy, but we gotta back 'em up. Ride or Die, baby!

In one short post, she showed how deserving she was for the position. I look forward to seeing her help lead the party however she sees fit in the future. All that being said...TURN TX BLUE!!! LET'S GO TALARICO!!! Numbers are encouraging if the Crockett voters take heed to her message.

I wish they had all coordinated better behind the scenes. We need her legal expertise in the House. I hope she can run for Congress again, or spend time going around Texas and talking to voters to gear up for another senate run against Cruz.

Texas hasn’t had a Dem senator in 30 years. You aren’t winning in Texas without religion. The Republican Party has tied itself to the church and his ability to speak their language gives him a shot. If you listen to his policy and not fixate on the faith he’s exactly what people have been asking for

Well it is obvious here in Texas that the Texas Supreme Court is the decider of if or if not this Texas voter can exercise that…which used to be a right. They control my vote. Judicial disenfranchisement of what was once a very simple half hour checking a box. Until Republicans rigged it all.

She's classy abd I am appalled at how dirty TX is! But as she said thats how Republicans are! He shouldn't have had standing ti go to TX Supreme Court! And was Houston one of her strong holds shorted maxhines, people were still in line between 11 & 12! Dirty!!!!

I feel the same, brother. After 50 years of living in Texas, I moved away three years ago and live in rural western New York. The offering of bounties for turning in women that get abortions out of state was the last straw. We need Jasmine in government. Two excellent candidates and one had to lose.

My wish is that Bernie had sent Hillary something like this and perhaps Trump would have been a foot note in history. Let’s not forget that we Ds need to stop defeating our candidates ourselves.

I like both candidates, but I was really hoping for Jasmine to win. She's smart and tough. I've been watching her for quite some time. She's been through the fire and came out strong. So now I will support Talarico.Texas needs to turn bright blue. Turn disappointment into victory.

It may seem a minor detail, but it's not. She's a lawyer who focuses on details as part of her job. Not capitalizing Democrat is something the FRight pounces on (despite doing it themselves). Pay attention to the little things lest they become bigger issues.

Once again, we have found a way to pick a candidate that might get the mythical moderate vote. At some point we are going to have to learn to vote for the candidate that excites the base. These so called Christians will twist themselves into pretzels to vote for Paxton.

I heard so may interviews where people said Talarico was more electable. Not that they preferred him. They were gaming it out. Talarico strikes me as a weak Pete. What hurt Pete and Jasmine is prejudice. Let’s just be real.

His policies aren’t moderate. He isn’t going to appeal to those people on policy. Texas hasn’t had a Dem senator in 30 years, and no one is winning here without religion. The Dems here go to church with the repubs. He does excite the base, thats why he just won the primary.

I didn't say he was a moderate. My point was that it's a fact that some voted for James because of perceived "electability".But he won't get elected because he's a Christian. These so called Christians will twist themselves in knots to vote for the adulterous con artist.

There are people who vote (R) that don’t like what’s happening. The state rep special election that flipped a RED seat blue in January is an example. He gives evangelicals that only vote for “Godly” people a non (R) choice that they haven’t had. He speaks their language in a way (D) never do.

I just feel in my bones that her purpose is higher. Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a rockstar with the fire of a thousand suns. She was born to lead & I’ll support her whatever avenue she chooses!

The out of staters commenting here don't realize how important this unifying message is. While Cornyn & Paxton will spend the next 2 months trying to prove how maga they are for their run-off, Talarico and Crockett will be focusing on November. No doubt the same would have happened had Crockett won.