DAVID MARCUS: How Crockett's last stand in Texas could bring down Talarico
There is a tradition in Texas of people named Crockett making famous last stands. For Davey Crockett, it was at the Alamo, but the hill that Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, seems inclined to die on is stopping James Talarico, who beat her in the primary, from winning his Senate race.
The famously sassy Crockett told the Dallas Morning News this week that she has "no idea" when asked if she would support Talarico in November, saying she is focused on the down-ballot races.
Crockett also declined an invitation to speak on Talarico’s behalf at the upcoming Texas Democratic Party Convention. In fact, she is just skipping the whole thing.
On one hand, this refusal to play ball could just be the ire of a woman scorned, but even if that is so, there are a few reasons for Democrats to be worried about Crockett taking her endorsement and going home.
The first reason why Crockett's refusal to endorse Talarico would hurt is that it takes away an important political weapon, specifically, the fact that long-serving GOP Sen. John Cornyn, who lost his party's primary, is also refusing to endorse the man who beat him, Ken Paxton.
Talarico would love to slap on a smug smile and tell Texas voters, "Even John Cornyn, who is as Republican as it gets, won’t back my extreme opponent," or whatever. But if his own primary opponent, a sitting member of Congress, is snubbing him too, it just evens out.
The deeper problem for the party that Crockett’s recalcitrance reveals is a growing worry among Black Democrats that their power in the party is being marginalized and diminished.
In our deep-blue cities, the Democratic Socialists of America are actively replacing old Black power within the party with immigrant candidates. The voters most aggressively fueling this shift are well-off, well-educated White people who always rank most progressive-leaning in polls.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a rally this week for his slate of wacky Congressional candidates in Gotham, none of whom are Black, all of whom are socialists and most of whom are opposed by the Black House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who lives in Brooklyn.
Jeffries is supposed to be the boss of Black political power in New York City, but it sure looks like he doesn’t have much of it anymore.
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The far-left rally came on the same day as the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, a funeral for the old party establishment on the shores of Lake Michigan, a baptism of the new socialist party in Brooklyn.
On Friday, on CNN, Corey Booker, a Black senator from New Jersey, was shown a clip of Commie Mamdani calling the Democrats a party of the past that has to be replaced. His response: "I don’t want to talk about the Democratic Party."
In other words, total surrender.
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Meanwhile, in purple state Senate races, such as in Maine, and Crockett’s own Texas, the Democrats have decided this cycle that "relatable" White guys are the ticket to success.
Graham Platner, in the Pine Tree State, is as scandal-scarred a candidate as we have seen in a long time, yet Democrats think they have found a White guy who knows how to load a gun.
In Texas, race was the underlying theme of the Democratic Party primary. In one viral clip from the contest, we saw a middle-aged White woman voter in tears, telling a reporter she loved Crockett but had to vote for Talarico because Texas is too racist to elect a Black woman.
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It was astounding, actually, here was this woman all but saying, "I have to commit an act of racism to fight racism."
Feckless Congressional Democrats who continue to feed the communist tiger of their party’s Hasan Piker wing, hoping to be eaten last, might want to consider Crockett’s example. She may have committed political Hari Kari but at least she is standing up for herself.
Even Crockett’s promise to focus her energy on down-ballot races shows that she is not convinced that either the national or Texas Democratic Party are really listening to her supporters, but instead, taking them for granted.
Republicans should also be paying attention to Crockett’s rebellion here, and offering Black voters who aren’t communists and don’t believe men should be in women’s sports or shelters a way back home to the GOP.
Davey Crockett did not survive the battle of the Alamo, and Jasmine Crockett’s political career might not survive her Senate primary loss and her antics since. But in the end, Texas carried the day, and we remember the Alamo because it was not a loss in vain.
Maybe Crockett is waiting for some concessions from the Democrats and Talarico, but for right now, it does not look like she is going to surrender and put her hands up to endorse her rival. For Republicans, this is very good news.