(DCNF)—Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill said Wednesday that Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is hurting her own Senate campaign by attacking the very voters she needs to win.
Crockett jumped into the Senate race Monday after months of hinting she would run if polling suggested she had a viable shot. Appearing on “The Evening Edit,” Gill responded after Crockett criticized Hispanic voters who supported President Donald Trump.
“Whenever you hear the words that she said very directly, it was pretty pejorative. And you know, I think she’s realizing now that demonizing your own potential voters isn’t actually a very compelling election strategy,” Gill told host Elizabeth MacDonald.
Gill added that Democrats have promised for years to flip Texas blue, only to fall short every cycle.
“Democrats have been talking for a long time about how they’re going to try to flip Texas blue, and they’ve never been successful. It’s all talk,” Gill said. “Colin Allred tried to do it, and he couldn’t. Beto O’Rourke tried to do it, and he couldn’t. And Jasmine Crockett can’t do it either. This is a state that the president won by 14 points.”
Former Democratic Texas Rep. Colin Allred lost his 2024 Senate bid to Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke also fell short against Cruz in 2018. Crockett told supporters she believes her approach can finally turn Texas blue, saying sustained grassroots work will make the difference.
Gill pointed to the state’s political makeup as the clearest indicator that Crockett’s uphill climb is unlikely to get easier.
“It’s a state that is 40% Latino. It is not going blue anytime soon. This is the home of conservatism in Texas. And Jasmine Crockett, I think we all know, and she knows, that she’s not a very compelling candidate for this state,” Gill added.
Crockett came under fire after Jake Tapper pressed her on past remarks comparing Trump-supporting Latino voters to having a “slave mentality,” a characterization she said Vanity Fair overstated. She said she was describing a small segment of voters, not all Latinos, while adding she finds their support for Trump difficult to understand.
“No, and that’s not what that said at all, to be clear. It did not say that every Latino has that type of mentality,” Crockett said. “No, no, but slave, the ones that vote for people who believe in strong or Trump’s immigration policy. So I don’t believe that the people that voted for Trump believe in what they’re actually getting.”
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