AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The U.S. Senate race in Texas is quickly shaping up to be one of the most contentious elections across the country for the 2026 cycle.

Since 2003, the seat has belonged to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is aiming for a fifth term.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, began her public service career in Bowie County as a public defender.

Crockett said serving in that role inspired her to create change in the criminal justice system and she ran for district attorney in Texarkana, but was handed a loss.

Ten years later, Crockett ran and won a state House seat in the Dallas area.

She served one term before setting her sights on Capitol Hill, when former Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announced she would not seek reelection in Texas’s 30th Congressional District.

Crockett, backed by Johnson, ran and won the election to the U.S. House and is currently serving her second term.

Now she’s running for U.S. Senate, but first she needs a win in the Democratic primary against State Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock.

Capitol Correspondent Dylan McKim interviewed Crockett during one of her campaign stops in east Fort Worth.

This is the fifth in Nexstar’s series of profiles on the candidates running to be the next U.S. Senator from Texas. The following transcript is only edited for clarity and readability.

Full interview with Jasmine Crockett

Dylan McKim: First of all, I want to thank you very much for taking time out of your very busy schedule in the campaign. You’ve been campaigning since December 8th officially now.

Jasmine Crockett: Not even two weeks old, yeah.

DM: Yeah. I want to first just ask, how are things going? Was it what you expected?

JC: I don’t know what I expected, to be perfectly honest. I will say that if there’s been any surprises, I did not expect to be attacked immediately.

That’s probably the biggest surprise.

But as it relates to the part of campaigning that I love, which is the people, that’s actually been overwhelming.

Obviously I serve in Dallas and so my base is right there in Dallas County.

So, you know it makes sense for me to go home in Dallas and things be exciting, but to be in Houston, Texas and to have people be so excited and want pictures and really be encouraged by my candidacy.

Or to come over now, today, to Fort Worth, an area that I’ve never represented, and to have kind of the same reception, it’s making me believe even more, right?

Because the theory of my case has always been that we could expand the electorate, we could get people that normally don’t participate in politics to be excited about getting involved.

And so many people have said over and over, “Oh, Democrats always say they’re going to expand the electorate,” right?

And so I think that there is a bit of cynicism around kind of my approach.

But in reality, when I touch grass and when I see people, I feel it and it comports with what we were seeing and kind of our way of trying to test to see if my candidacy would get some of those people that normally don’t participate to get involved.

DM: I want to go into your background.

When you first got into public service, you were a public defender in Bowie County, Texas.

That’s Texarkana area for people who don’t know.

What did that job teach you as a person and serving the public?

JC: Yeah, so it was actually my experience as a public defender that got me involved in politics in general.

A lot of things had to come together, but overall my experiences were what really drove me.

And so my very first race for public office, the only one that I lost, was for a district attorney.

And that was in Texarkana.

And a lot of people were like, “what are you doing? You’re 28 years old. Y

ou’re fresh out of law school, and you’re running to be DA?” And I was like, “Yes, because I can do better,” right?

I raised $7,000, and I thought, you can’t tell me nothing. Like, I raised $7,000, I’m about to win this thing, right?

And truly it was God preparing me for my future.

It was in that race that I learned so much about what it was to campaign and that kind of stuff. But the catalyst for me joining was I was representing a 17-year-old.

And the 17-year-old — I got him on what we call a probation revocation — so he had been placed on felony probation for burglary of a building.

His crime was stealing candy out of the concession stand at his high school.

Now, I don’t condone theft, but at the same time, I was like, are we seriously giving somebody a felony for burglary?

I mean, when he goes to get a job in the future, it doesn’t lay out the specifics of the case. It just has a charge.

And I’m like, why would we give a 17-year-old burglary of a building?

But unfortunately some lawyer before me put him on felony probation.

And when his mom was unable to take off work, to go get her son from school, get him to the probation officer, they filed a probation revocation on him. It was all technical violations, no new offenses, no dirty waves, nothing like that.

It was all technical.

And I had to represent him and that judge gave him the maximum penalty of two years in a state jail facility.

The next time that I saw him again he was a full blown — I don’t want to call him a full-blown criminal — but he had definitely gotten involved in the criminal world for sure.

DM: He advanced from the concession stand.

JC: Correct. He advanced. And I had actually gotten him on a meth case, to be honest.

And I was like, “Where did you get this from?” And he learned how to cook meth in prison.

That is where he learned and so I was just like, how did this help our community?

How did this help our society?

We took a kid who obviously, you know, again, not condoning theft, but like, if I think about something that a kid may do, that sounds kind of like a kid-like thing.

And that was when I was so frustrated that Texas is only one of five states that at the age of 17 you are considered an adult, but only for criminal justice purposes.

So I’m like, why is it we haven’t gotten in alignment with the federal law?

Why is it that we haven’t changed it to 18 when you get someone who’s charged with capital murder?

Because of what federal law says, it’s not like they’re ever facing the death penalty, because federal law says you can’t do it.

So I’m like, this makes life really complicated.

And you always have an option to certify young people who, say, have a significant juvenile record. Y

ou can always certify somebody.

So it’s not that you can’t charge somebody as an adult, but why were we starting there?

So, these are the questions that started to go off in my head.

But for me, I was like, well, the prosecutor was the problem.

The prosecutor had the power to decide I’m going to reduce this to a misdemeanor, or I’m going to go ahead and give them a diversion option.

And so when I ran back then, I came up with a diversion program where if someone had a low-level — even felony — and it was nonviolent in nature, that we should give them the option of going into the military.

And if they chose to go into the military, then they would not necessarily have to face the charges for something like stealing candy out of the concession stand.

And I just thought this is doing so much more for our community.

And so I was making that case.

And so at 28 with $7,000, I won the early vote and lost on election day.

So it was a huge accomplishment. But at the time, my pastor was a Reverend Petrie in Texarkana.

And I had talked to him for a while about, I think this is what God is leading me to do, but I don’t know.

This is kind of scary. This is weird. And that was when he told me, I believe God really is speaking to you, but I want you to understand that just because He’s telling you to run doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to win in this moment.

And he was like, “I need you to be okay no matter what happens. Not saying that I don’t think you’re going to win.” And it truly laid the foundation for ultimately my state house race that came 10 years later.

DM: Yeah, let’s talk about that. Was it a narrow defeat at least?

JC: I don’t remember.

It wasn’t like super big because there was a former Republican who was like, “There’s a history of throwing ballots out in this,” because we still did paper ballots. And he’s like, “They have been known to throw things out. You should go and sue.”

And I was like, no, it’s all good.

I’m like, it’s fine, you know, because I really was settled in give it your all and trust the process.

Like trust that this is what God really put on your heart and I never could have imagined we’d be where I am now.

But if I had become DA, I don’t think I would have ultimately ended up in Dallas and ultimately gone to the state house, US House, and now be running for the Senate.

DM: So you were 0 for 1.

You moved back to Dallas. You started your own law firm, and then you said, “I’m going to take another crack at this,” but you’re going for, I would argue, a bigger position going to the state House in Austin.

What was the reasoning? To go spark change for the criminal justice system? Was that the main reason?

JC: That was, yeah, so still being frustrated with the system, right? 17-year-olds, again, as the girl who doesn’t have any kids, right?

So as I continue to practice law throughout the entire state of Texas, having 17-year-olds get charged with, like, vape pens and Rice Krispie treats and brownies, because they don’t understand that as soon as you add anything to whatever flower you have, now you’re facing a felony.

They didn’t understand that it’s all that weight.

And so, like, don’t do it, right?

And again, not condoning, but seeing kids end up with felonies, depending on what county they were in and how good the prosecutor was, these drug felonies would prevent them then from being able to get the financial aid on the federal level so that they could go to college.

All because they may have gone out with some friends and decided that they were going to have Rice Krispie treats that had some amount of flower in it, whereas you could have up to four ounces of flower, and it would be a misdemeanor.

And I’m like, this is not fair. It’s not fair.

These kids are losing out on their opportunities.

So just, again, my experience is in the courtroom.

But in addition to that, I started to do some civil rights work.

And so I really wanted to be smarter about the encounters that people were having with law enforcement.

So yeah, I went in writing a ton of bills myself, like handwriting my bills, because there were things that I knew were sitting in the code and I was like, nope, I want to change that, you know.

I ran, and it was about 10 years later, and it took a lot of things that I learned from that initial run and it ended up being the closest state house race in the entire state of Texas when I ran.

So in that race I was out spent five-to-one but we had over 300 volunteers that had signed up for a state house race and we worked really hard, and after the early vote — unlike the time before — I was actually down by 700 votes after three weeks of voting.

And I was like, “All right, we’re done. It’s over.”

The trends are the trends. I studied trends historically.

I was a math and science girl, so I look at data. So I was like, there’s no way. The trends are too strong against me. So we’re done.

And my team was like, “Nope, we’re going down to elections. It’s not over till it’s over.”

And it was about a little bit before 10 p.m., and we continued to kind of eat in to that lead. And I was down by 50 votes.

And I was like, “All right, this is getting interesting.” I was like, “What is still out?” Because I mean, basically everything had been counted.

And they said, “MLK is still out.” I said, “Oh, I think we’re going to win this thing.”

And we did. And we won it by 90 votes. And so I planned to stay in the state house, not forever, but just long enough to get fully vested.

And then I was like, it’ll be time for me to move on because I just don’t really feel like people should be in elected offices forever. It’s just not really my thing.

And unbeknownst to me, my congresswoman at that time had been watching me and she called me and asked me to run.

And I was like, “I just barely got here,” you know?

I was like, barely got here, had to beat five other people and I knew it was going to be a really tough race because she had been elected for 30 years. And so there would be a lot of people that would wonder, will I be as good as her?

Will I do right by them? And there were people that had been waiting in the wings for almost the entirety of the 30 years.

And so I had to go into a 10-way primary to get there. But we made it.

And again, it was a former ambassador under President Clinton who really, really, really kind of pushed me over the edge a little bit.

He didn’t know all the things that were going on or that my congresswoman had called me, but he had watched me as we had broken quorum and I had now ended up on national news talking about what was happening in Texas.

And he said, “I think you should run for Congress.” And I said, “Why?” And he said, “In Texas the power never changes.

It’s Republican, Republican, Republican.” He said, “But if you really want to do good by your constituents, you should run for the Congress because the power will shift and there will be times that somebody’s in the majority and you’ll be able to do something.”

And that really stuck with me because I never got into politics thinking, oh, it’s just great to have a title.

It was because I really wanted to move the needle and I wanted to change things.

And he was right, you know. I was able to go in with the Democratic White House and the Democratic Senate and not a Democratic House but because we were in divided government we were still able to get things done.

And I didn’t anticipate that i would ever leave the House, to be honest. I would stay in the House for a little while and then leave but here we are.

DM: Let’s talk about that because yeah, you had one term in the state House.

And then you’re in your second term in the U.S. House and you have a safe seat.

I would argue that if you ran for reelection we’d see you back in Washington D.C. So why go for something that many Democrats have seen as unattainable in the last 30 years? Why risk that?

JC: Yeah. So for me, I just refuse to be settled with fear.

You’re right, I could have won either where I lived, which is the new 33, or won the old 30 where I don’t live.

I feel very confident that I would have won one of those two seats.

The pay is the same. The pay doesn’t change.

But I just don’t feel like I can continue to say that I am fighting, fighting, fighting, and giving my all to really move the needle without literally doing what is uncomfortable.

It is uncomfortable to go and figure out how to get across the entire state of Texas versus just getting across my district.

But I will tell you one of the things that was an extreme catalyst for this decision.

While I was looking at numbers and all that kind of stuff and having the conversations with family and friends and talking to elected officials all over the country, the Supreme Court, about four days before the filing deadline, decided to double down and it infuriated me.

I’m going to be honest.

And when I think about the power, the Supreme Court is only the Supreme Court because of the Senate. You have to go through a Senate confirmation hearing to get there.

When I think about the judiciary that we’re living with as we have an administration that is constantly shopping — forum shopping — for their favorite judges.

They have to go through Senate confirmation.

When I think about the fact that Roe v. Wade was overturned, it was overturned by this Supreme Court.

There’s only one body that actually has oversight over the Supreme Court or the judiciary at all, the federal judiciary, and that is the Senate.

When I think about the fact that the Voting Rights Act is being decimated, again, it is the Supreme Court and it is the Senate.

Because when we look at — when I broke quorum in the State House, it was in the State House, we broke quorum. We went to D.C. The U.S. House, Nancy Pelosi was the speaker.

Nancy Pelosi put the Freedom to Vote Act on the floor. It passed.

She put the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on the floor. It passed. We wouldn’t be dealing with this mid-decade redistricting fiasco that we’re dealing with if it had passed the Senate, but it didn’t.

For all the people that had questions about how can Elon Musk buy an election, the Freedom to Vote Act would have solved that, but it didn’t get past the Senate.

When people keep asking about what’s happening with healthcare, as we know what just happened in the Senate with our senators.

Again, if we don’t change the map on the Senate, then what is it that I can do except for file great, great bills that ultimately — the things that truly, truly matter to the vast majority of people, the things that can potentially save their lives — we can’t get it done without changing the map in the Senate.

I will tell you that if we were in a traditional blue state, I would not be running for the Senate because it is about changing the map.

And frankly, I had hoped that I wasn’t the one. I did.

I had hoped that I could look at the numbers in the way that I think that we need to win and that it revealed that somebody else, whether it was Colin [Allred] or James [Talarico], was better situated.

That is what I hoped because I have consistently been a team player.

I have traveled this country. I promise you, I have over three million miles.

I have traveled on behalf of other candidates and I’ve never had a problem with it. When I first got into politics, right after that run, I became the county party chair out in Bowie County. I worked behind the scenes helping to get people elected.

When I moved to Dallas, a lot of people didn’t know, but Dallas ended up having more African-American judges on the bench than any other county in this country.

I worked behind the scenes to help good judges get elected. I have always been better at strategizing than being the actual candidate, but unfortunately what the numbers showed was this.

And to me, it’s not about me, it’s about the fact that literally people are dying.

That is not hyperbole.

We know that when funds were improperly impounded under this administration, and people lost their funding for USAID, we know that there are lives that have been lost.

We know that in ICE custody right now, in the worst administration of ICE, we know that we have a record number of deaths that have taken place since they’ve been there.

We know that people are going to go hungry as they’ve decided to cut SNAP benefits.

We know that up to 17 million people are gonna lose their Medicaid and Medicare.

We know that just in the state of Texas, almost 4 million people get their healthcare on the marketplace.

And right now, over 90% of them have a tax subsidy so that they can afford it.

People are literally going to die. So this isn’t a time to be comfortable.

This isn’t a time to say that I’m going to play cheerleader for somebody that specifically, in the way — again, everybody has a different approach, but my deal is if we’re not going to expand the electorate, we can expect the same results.

The electorate we’ve had for the same last 30 years, no matter how close a Democrat may get, we lose. So the only answer is looking at the fact that we only have approximately 52% of people that are registered in Texas turning out.

We’ve got to get the number up.

When I talked to Stacey Abrams and I asked what all took place in Georgia, you know what they did?

They got voter participation up. That is what they did. When I was having conversations and saying, listen, I’m trying to build the strongest slate possible because I wanted to give us the best shot that we’ve got to win.

Listen, this is about us and the future of Texas.

This is the same state that gave us LBJ, who signed the Civil Rights Act into law, signed the Voting Rights Act into law.

This is the same state that gave us Roe v. Wade, a case that came out of my district in Dallas County when Henry Wade was the DA. This is the same state that gave us two women governors before most states still have even had one.

We have a rich legacy of doing right in this country.

And right now, it is not the time to be afraid. It is the time to do something that we’ve never done, to not only do this for Texas, but to do this for our country.

DM: You talk about the Senate being a barrier for the Democratic movement.

If you were to win this election, I would view that as a rebuke on President Trump, as a rebuke on the Republican Party.

So now you’re one of 100 members in the upper chamber of U.S. Congress. What would you do to fight back against President Trump?

JC: So the first thing I would do would actually be on the tariffs.

I think we’ve got to deal with that immediately. My legal analysis is that he has illegally expanded his powers beyond what the Constitution authorizes.

And as we sit here in a small business, right here in Fort Worth, that is struggling because of the tariffs, like, I can draw a direct line.

We know that we are experiencing record-breaking bankruptcies being filed by farmers and ranchers, which in Texas, we do that really big. As somebody who served on the [Agriculture] Committee, I can tell you that they are struggling.

Again, we can draw a direct line to the tariffs as well as not getting through the Farm Bill.

I think the very first thing that we have to do for consumers as well as small business owners is we’ve got to make sure that we rein him in on the tariffs.

So there have been some plays that have been made on the Senate floor, obviously not enough votes, very close on the votes. But I think that that has to be the very first thing that we do.

The next thing for me, though, is voting rights.

That’s just bottom line. You don’t get any other rights unless you have voting rights.

And right now, I’m very nervous to see what the Supreme Court will do with the Louisiana case. So as we’re sitting here wondering whether or not Section 2 is going to survive, we know that they had already gotten rid of so many other sections — and to be clear, people talk about the legislation in D.C. all the time and how many pages it is.

One of the strongest and most powerful pieces of legislation we’ve ever had was the Voting Rights Act, which is a five-page piece of legislation.

And to have lasted for approximately almost 60 years, that says something, right? But we need to fortify our democracy and make sure that we have access to the ballot box and make sure that people are picking their representatives versus their representatives picking their people.

So to me what has to come, like next, is voting rights.

And then after that I think we just have to dig in on healthcare and the aftermath of, you know, us coming out of the deadliest pandemic that we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.

We can’t afford to not only divest of our investments as it relates to science and making sure that we can be prepared, but we also have to make sure that people have the care that they need.

And so it would be that.

And so if we start to get into the healthcare aspect, then we’ve got to revisit the taxing aspect because what happened is they decided to give so many cuts to the top one percenters that literally the amount of money they took out of Medicaid and Medicare still is not enough.

The $1 trillion is still not enough to pay for all the cuts that they gave to the wealthiest amongst us because we still are going to face a deficit after doing all of that.

So I think that we absolutely need to kind of turn the tables on that.

As we’re talking about affordability and we get in relief as it relates to the tariffs, we’ve got to raise the minimum wage.

Costs have gone up a lot faster than wages have. And in a state like Texas, our state has not decided to raise the minimum wage.

So the federal minimum wage of $7.25, there are people in this state that are trying to live a life on $7.25, and then people wonder why there are 42 million people that are on SNAP right now.

But I think the images were powerful as we had a president that decided that he did not want to lawfully give out money to people that needed it and instead decided to send $40 billion to Argentina when Americans were hungry in this country.

But the images were powerful as you watched and you saw who was going through the food lines at the various food pantries.

People were finally realizing that it could be the service member that is trying to protect and serve this country. And they’re realizing that people that are working, we have a working poor problem in this country.

And so why is it that we should give tax cuts to the wealthiest and these corporations and then we as the taxpayers also foot the bill because you’re not paying your workers a livable wage?

At least balance it out and make it make sense. But nothing about this is fiscally responsible.

And I think that we need to have real conversations about why is it that we’re voting for certain people. If there’s anybody in the state of Texas that feels like they’re struggling or they’re suffering, I just want to point out that the Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Governor’s mansion.

They also control the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, and the presidency.

They control every lever of life for Texans. And if you were thinking that you can do better, then maybe we need to shift from voting for R to voting D.

DM: When you spoke to the congregation today at the church, you said something that I found kind of funny.

You said, “I never know what I’m going to say.” It’s a stark difference for most politicians who have the same speech, the same talking points. You speak your mind. That’s very apparent. How do you do that? Why do you do that?

Do you feel like you need to, or have you been told maybe we should stick to the talking points? How do you handle that?

JC: No one tells me to stick to talking points. I’m sure my team would prefer it, but they’ve never told me. I think that people are tired of politics as usual and they want to experience someone that they feel like is authentic.

I think that, you know, if there was a superpower of mine as a politician, it would be that I’m just myself.

That I don’t feel like I need to pretend to be perfect. I don’t feel like I need to pretend to be anybody else. I need to be as emotional as necessary because people — it’s hard to say, well, people are going hungry in the streets of America, right?

And, like, say it with, like, no, like, emotion.

Like, no, and sometimes it comes out in the form of cuss words. But, like, I don’t do this work because I’ve ever aspired to the titles.

I do this work because I care. And so because I’ve never really aspired to the title itself, but I aspire to the change and the work itself, I just have never gone to the campaign schools of how to do it. Instead, I want to remain who I am at all times.

And I think people realize that and they see that.

And I think that even when you talk to people that are supporters of the president — I remember being in Philadelphia in a barbershop on behalf of not the president, but the vice president, and I remember talking to a gentleman who was telling me that, “Yeah, you know, I mean, we know who Trump is.

Yeah, he says crazy things, but you know at least we know who he is.” It’s like what?!

You know, I’m like trying to go through all the policy arguments and that kind of stuff but it’s clear that that is a superpower of his that people, even though he’s a con man, people feel like there’s no way you would say this crazy stuff as a politician.

And now I think people are just really disappointed in him.

Even his supporters. Obviously the people that didn’t support him are still very disappointed. But even a number of his supporters, I mean to have Marjorie Taylor Greene decide that she’s done with him, that says a lot.

And so I do feel like a lot of people feel like they got hoodwinked.

And so the point is, if you’re in politics, sometimes even the person that you’re thinking is that person may still do something else.

DM: I mean, you’re unapologetically you. And I think you’re right.

Some people are going to love that about you, and you’re going to get criticized on the other side of that. So on your announcement night, you mentioned that your spicier comments, is how you phrased it.

And I like that phrase.

Spicy comments. Governor Hot Wheels, what you said about Marjorie Taylor Greene, they made national headlines.

They put your name, whether it was good or bad, they put your name out there. I’m wondering, do you tone down the spice level or do you keep it going?

JC: I’m going to be me the entire time. I never imagined a situation where an alliteration would come up, and none of this is planned, right? And none of these comments have been. So that kind of goes back to, I never know what I’m going to say.

I will tell you that what you will see in this campaign is me trying to introduce people to the substance of who I am, because those spicy moments, they overshadow everything.

It is not viral to talk about my bipartisan work with Senator Cornyn, right? Like, it goes nowhere.

I can go and tell everybody about the fentanyl legislation that I started working on when I was in the State House and how I carried it to the U.S. House, and how John Cornyn has been a champion for a lot of those bills.

I can tell you about the Grant Transparency Act that we got signed into law by Joe Biden, where he was the Senate sponsor.

I can tell you about a lot of things, but those things don’t go viral, right?

And so I think that, you know, being known for my virality, being known for my no-nonsense attitude, which I think is the most Texas thing about me, because what we say, don’t mess with Texas.

But I think that this is an opportunity for people who say don’t go to YouTube because YouTube is truly where you really get to dig in a little bit more. That’s where I have my tele-town halls.

That’s where you’re going to find the entirety of statements that I’ve made in committee and not just whatever the sound bite was that may have gone viral.

This is an opportunity for those that typically just don’t know what all I’ve done, especially the bipartisan work that I’ve done.

Whether it was getting the ARPA-H location into Dallas, which was the only, we were the only Republican state to get one of the three. And that brought jobs, it brought investments in science.

And I worked with Kay Granger, who’s out of Tarrant County, as my lead to try to help me get that into my district and so many other Republicans signed on. That stuff doesn’t go viral.

And I’m not saying that you have to go viral, because Lord knows I never imagined I’d be going viral in Congress.

But what I am saying is that I think that what we are definitely going to try to do is we are going to try to introduce people to the substance.

Let them learn about the legislation I proposed. Let them learn about all of the investigations I’ve tried to open.

Let them learn about the letters that I’ve written. We’re going to try to get to that so that people know that, yes, I’m spicy, but at the end of the day, this is about getting the work done, and I can do that.

DM: We’re getting the wrap-up signal, so I have two questions.

The TSU poll came out. You’re eight points up.

You’re doing great with black men, black women, and Latino women. You’re not doing as well with Latino men, white men, and white women. How are you planning to reach those groups?

JC: For me it’s about meeting people where they are.

So you know we are going to make sure that we are number one communicating in not only English but Spanish because we have a lot of Spanish speakers.

I think also just increasing the visibility on a lot of the work that I’ve done as a member of the immigration subcommittee in Congress so that they know that I’ve traveled this country doing field hearings on what all is taking place, whether you’re a U.S. citizen that has been rounded up unlawfully by this ICE administration or whether you are an undocumented immigrant.

I think just really digging into the work that I’ve done specifically for the Brown community I think is going to be a really big help. I think that when you talk about men in general, you’re saying that it’s like two groups of men that I’m struggling with.

I don’t know that I really believe that we won’t be able to get them to come home.

I think that in this primary, there is obviously a man that’s on the other side.

But interestingly enough, there’s actually two men that are on the other side, and there’s one me.

So there may be some division in their votes because there are multiple men on the ballot. In addition to that, we anticipate that we will have no less than 57% of the electorate be women for this primary.

So I think that that will also help us kind of get through and help us move on to the general election.

But overall, we’re going to continue to introduce myself to anyone who wasn’t a part of our original coalition.

DM: Last question is the non-public-facing Jasmine Crockett. What do you do in your free time? What are your hobbies?

JC: I will tell you that my friends, people that have known me for years, way before I was ever in an elected office, those are the ones that are usually coming and grabbing me to kind of just make sure that I’m being leveled out. I am an artsy-fartsy, so it is not abnormal for me to end up on Broadway.

Going to see a show because that’s like just one of the things that I love and it’s easy to jump on the train from D.C.

But I love to travel and unfortunately — and I love to travel internationally — but I’ve not been able to kind of do that. I love experiencing different cultures, different food because I’m a foodie.

I just love to learn about the world that we live in and never want to limit myself.

Unfortunately, I’m not doing as much international travel as of late, but if it’s anything with the arts, whether it’s poetry, in fact, I had Cure for Paranoia, Cam, who was at my announcement, who came up with his own rap for the event, and so he’s gonna have a showcase on the 26th, and I’m gonna be there with him.

I love the arts, so anything with the arts, I’m down.