Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she is "strongly" considering a Senate bid as a result of polling showing her as a frontrunner in Texas, according to a new report.
Axios noted that Crockett expressed interest in the run while on The Lurie Daniel Favors Show, in SiriusXM, while discussing options after Republicans' redistricting moves in the state.
The maps, the outlet highlighted, would remove one Democratic-leaning district, leaving two open seats in the area. "If you want to take my seat of 766,000 away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that to where I take your seat that is for 30 million away," she said when referring to the situation.
"If we can expand the electorate, then I will strongly be considering hopping in the Senate race," she added. Crockett claimed that "every other day there's a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas."
According to Axios, a University of Houston/Texas Southern University poll from October showed her getting 31% of the vote among likely Democratic primary voters. State Rep. James Talarico, a rising star in the party, got 25%, while former Rep. Colin Allred, who lost the last election against Ted Cruz, got 13% of the support.
Talarico, however, has been increasing his profile over the past weeks. The Texas Tribune reported earlier this month that Talarico raised $6.2 million in the three weeks since he announced his Senate run, already outpacing the first numbers by other contenders.
The outlet noted that he has already more funds in hand than Allred, who said he had raised $4.1 million in the three months since he announced his campaign on July 1. It added that Beto O'Rourke took nine months to raise that sum in 2018.
The donations came from over 125,000 individual contributors across the state and the country. 98% of them were $100 or less, with teachers making up the largest share of donors. Talarico is a former public school teacher.
"We're underdogs in this fight against billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians, but more than one hundred thousand people have answered the call to build a new kind of politics," Talarico said in a statement.
The outlet added that Talarico has gained notoriety for debating Republicans in the Texas House and on cable television. He has frequently gone viral on social media for his performances, as well as criticizing the influence of megadonors in Texas politics, particularly from the right.
However, over 40% of Texas Democrats said in a recent poll by the Texas Politics Project that they didn't know of him.
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