Democrats spent the spring insisting that Texas was finally, plausibly in play, and the centerpiece of that argument was party unity behind James Talarico, the Austin state representative who upset Jasmine Crockett in March to claim the Senate nomination. This week the woman he beat torched that argument in an interview, and she did it without raising her voice.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told the Dallas Morning News she will skip next week’s Texas Democrat convention in Corpus Christi, the very event designed to project momentum heading into a general election against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Instead, she said, she intends to spend her energy on down-ballot races scattered across the country. The party’s most recognizable Texas firebrand has decided the marquee gathering of her own state party is not worth the trip.
Her explanation for the snub was, if anything, more revealing than the snub itself.
“I’ve not heard a bunch of kumbaya. People don’t seem to be convinced at this point, but there’s a lot of time between now and November.”
Asked whether she would actively campaign for Talarico, Crockett declined to commit. “I have no idea. I am more focused on down-ballot races in general,” she said. That is a striking posture from a sitting congresswoman whose party is asking voters to believe it is unified enough to win a statewide race for the first time since 1994.
The most pointed of her doubts concerned Black voters, who she said have not coalesced behind the nominee. The complaint lands harder when set against the primary she just lost. Polling before the March vote showed Black Democrats overwhelmingly with Crockett while Talarico built his coalition among Hispanic and white voters, and the contest grew personal enough that Crockett accused a Talarico-aligned group of darkening her skin tone in an ad and dismissed questions about her electability as a “dog whistle.” A nominee cannot paper over that kind of fracture with a keynote slot and a press release.
About that keynote slot. Crockett waved off the idea that she had declined an invitation, describing instead what she called an “afterthought invite” left on her voicemail earlier this month.
“I had a missed call that I’ve not returned, nor have I listened to the message from Talarico. It seemed like an afterthought invite.”
Talarico’s campaign tells it differently, saying he phoned her personally to ask her to deliver the convention’s keynote address. Whatever the truth of the gesture, Crockett has not bothered to listen to the message, which is its own answer.
She also offered a sober read on the money. National donors, she suggested, may prefer to spend in cheaper races elsewhere rather than pour resources into an expensive Texas campaign, and any November surge for Democrats would owe more to the national environment than to anyone at the top of the ticket. “If for some reason there’s a surge,” she said, “I don’t think it’s going to be because of anyone on this ticket.”
Texas Democrat Chairman Kendall Scudder responded with the requisite optimism, citing “great energy for Democrats all across the state.” That is the line the convention exists to sell. The problem is that one of the party’s biggest names is choosing not to be in the room when it is delivered.
A party that has to schedule a convention to perform unity is usually a party that does not have it, and no amount of staged kumbaya substitutes for the real thing.
Crockett conceded the primary graciously in March and called on Democrats to rally. Three months later she will not return the nominee’s phone call or attend his convention. Paxton, for his part, can read the same newspapers everyone else can.
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