Jasmine Crockett Says She Will Decide This Week Whether To Run For U.S. Senate Seat In Texas

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she will announce whether she will run for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas before Thanksgiving.

Speaking to CBS News, Crockett said she will either run for Senate or for re-election in the state's 30th Congressional District.

"I will tell you that I still have not made up my mind. Everyone thinks that I'm just holding a secret in, but our poll is in the field right now. We are supposed to get that polling back by the end of the week or early next week. I said I would decide by Thanksgiving," she said last week.

She went on to say she will share her polling with Democrats who have already announced their candidacies: State Rep. James Talarico and former Rep. Colin Allred.

"I'm going to open it up to them because this isn't about me... It would be really, really, really hard for me now, knowing that my district is still at least in its current configuration and knowing that my district absolutely wants me to continue to represent them wholly; it would be really, really hard," Crockett claimed, noting that the state's congressional configuration is still dynamic considering that Republicans approved redistricting plans that would be more favorable for them, but which have been halted by courts.

"But at the end of the day, if the numbers are strong, that I am our best shot, then it's bigger than my district. It's bigger than the state of Texas. This is about the country because we know if we can change the Senate map in this country, then that's where we start to get wins," she added.

Crockett has been publicly discussing whether to run, recently saying that raising her public profile will be a first step in an eventual statewide campaign. "I don't think that we have the luxury, especially with us having such an early primary, of actually doing what we normally do, which — we spend about $100 million to get someone's name ID up," she said.

Speaking to Politico, she conceded that she doesn't think "that there's a Democrat that can take out (Texas Sen. John) Cornyn." "For me, I would be making a very last-minute decision because it's not just about winning the primary. You gotta win the general."

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.