Jasmine Crockett surprises reporter with claim Republicans 'tell me how much they like me'

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, amazed a section newsman during an interrogation connected Sunday with her assertion that Republicans often accidental however overmuch they similar her. 

"I deliberation that radical conscionable person recovered a mode to link with me, and I think, you know, determination was a constituent successful which radical successful the party, well, wrong parties, not wrong our circumstantial party, felt like, ‘Oh, she’s Black and she’s proud, truthful lone Black radical volition perceive to her,’" said the wide congresswoman. 

"And past it’s like, well, hold a minute, possibly conscionable liberals volition perceive to her, and present it’s go wide arsenic I person been retired successful assorted cities passim this country, wherever I’ve had Republicans locomotion up to maine and archer maine however overmuch they similar me," Crockett told Jason Whitely, a newsman for Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA, connected "Inside Texas Politics." 

Whitely responded, "No, you haven’t, are you serious?" 

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, claimed galore Republicans archer her however overmuch they similar her.  ((Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images))

Crockett said she was and told the reporter, "You'd beryllium surprised."

"Come on!" Whitely added. 

Asked by Whitely astir her governmental ambitions and if she was looking to bash thing bigger going into 2026 and looking up to the 2028 statesmanlike election, Crockett said no.

"I privation to bash what I tin to hopefully marque definite that we win," she said. "Win the bulk backmost successful Congress, but besides with the presidency." 

Crockett has been outspoken successful her disapproval of President Donald Trump and reportedly has her sights connected becoming the apical Democrat connected the House Oversight Committee.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks during a proceeding with the Subcommittee connected Delivering On Government Efficiency successful the U.S. Capitol connected February 26, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Crockett agreed that "Republicans privation mediocre radical to dice arsenic rapidly arsenic humanly possible," during a municipality hallway lawsuit connected Monday. 

She has traded barbs with Trump and has alleged that the president is "terrified" of "smart, bold Black women" telling him the information aft Trump called her a "low-IQ person."

Crockett besides expressed immoderate uncertainty astir having an extended vocation successful politics, pointing to "death threats."

"I did transgression defence work, and I worked with existent bluish criminals and ne'er had to interest astir decease threats. And waking up and having to woody with decease threats, having to deliberation astir wherever I go, however overmuch information I have, due to the fact that of each the hateful rhetoric that is circling, and a batch of it is spewed straight from the president of the United States himself," she said.

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Rep. Crockett has often clashed with President Donald Trump.  (Donald Trump 2024 campaign, Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn)

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"I conscionable don't cognize that that's truly a beingness that I privation to unrecorded for an extended magnitude of time," she added, noting that she would proceed to service arsenic agelong arsenic she could successful her existent role.