Jasmine Crockett Sets the Record Straight on PAC Money, Polls & Misogynoir

TTPS Rewind: The fastest way to spot a serious candidate is simple: they show up. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins us to explain why she’s taking an aggressive, on-the-ground approach to a Texas statewide race, from East Texas stops to Houston community nights, and why “meeting people where they are” is not a slogan, it’s the whole turnout strategy. When voters feel ignored or treated like a voting bloc that will magically appear on Election Day, trust evaporates. She’s trying to rebuild it in person, especially with young voters who want proof that politics can be real.

We also get into the harder conversations candidates usually dodge. Crockett talks candidly about the racism and sexism that still shape “electability” chatter, including criticism coming from her own side. Her answer is qualifications and receipts: federal experience, legal expertise, and a view of the Senate as a place that must actually challenge judges and hold institutions accountable. She argues the real math of Texas politics is participation, not mythology, and that expanding the electorate among communities that too often stay home is how Democrats win.

Then we break down polling and political narratives. She explains what she sees as flaws in a widely shared poll, why methodology matters, and why polls are tools for campaigns, not marching orders for voters. We also talk money attacks, corporate PAC language games, and her top priorities starting with affordability and health care, including what rural hospital closures could mean for families across the state. If this conversation sharpened your view of what campaigning should look like, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review. What’s one place you wish politicians would actually show up?

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Transcript

Ready For The Road

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Okay, you ready? I'm ready. Okay. Congresswoman Crockett, my goodness. I've been waiting to do this interview. I'm so excited to talk to you. How are you feeling? Exhausted. I know. Yeah. You've been all over the place. Yeah. What was the last place you was? Uh what's today? We ain't gonna tell them what today is. What happened last night, last few nights? Where have you been?

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Yeah, so uh on yesterday I was in East Texas. I went to Beaumont Marshall in Texas Orkana as well as Dallas. Um, I started in Houston on yesterday, and I finished in Dallas on stage with Tyrese. On stage with who now? With Tyrese.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

I cannot. So you're using some very unconventional ways, I feel like, to make sure that people know that you in this thing, right? And to continue to energize the vote.

unknown 0:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

What has that been like for you on a campaign trail? What has the feedback been like for you from from folks that are out there?

SPEAKER_02 0:51

People are so excited. Um, I think that a lot of people look at politicians and they feel like they're inaccessible and they feel like that they don't know them, they can't trust them, and frankly, that these people aren't gonna look out for them. And so when I say things like I want to expand the electorate, and people say, Oh, Democrats say that all the time, and I agree that Democrats have said that. But the question is, what are you doing to expand the electorate? In my opinion, is that you have to meet people where they are. So um, you know, we were in the gay bars um in Houston, down in Montrose. Come on, um, the the night before that. And so, you know what, it was so many people that were moved. They knew exactly who I was, but they were like, we're used to seeing you on TV. Like, we can't believe you're here. And like they wanted to talk and they wanted pictures, and so they're excited. And so I think that it is important for me kind of to make sure that people understand that I am as real as I say I am and as real as I come off. And so it's been fantastic.

Meeting Voters Where They Are

SPEAKER_03 1:44

You've said recently that you're attacking this campaign in an aggressive way, that you are serious about winning. For folks who haven't been following closely, what does that actually look like? And you've said a little bit of it day to day for you, and what kind of energy are you seeing in return from voters? You mentioned being down in Montrose, down in Houston, yeah, and they want to talk like, well, are you here in real life in the flesh? Yeah. What else have you been seeing in some of these smaller, like East Texas towns, Marshalls, Texas or Cana, all of that?

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Definitely when it came to going to East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, um, people were really excited to actually have somebody show up. They feel like they get ignored. And granted, Texas is a big state, so it's hard for you to get around. And um, for me, it's even more difficult because I have a day job, right? And so my day job requires me to be in DC. And, you know, I've got to deal with an administration that's going out and disappearing people. I gotta deal with an administration that's going and randomly dropping bombs. I gotta deal with so much, in addition to the fact that I actually serve on so many committees. Um, just this upcoming week, I'm gonna deal with um a committee in which I sit on the I'm the ranker on that committee, and we're dealing with MLK, right? And what happened with his assassination. Um, I also sit on judiciary where I'm on the immigration subcommittee. So we deal with all things ice. So I got out of DC on Thursday. By Friday morning, I was having a hearing in Minneapolis over what was taking place and what was going on on the ground, listening to the people in Minneapolis. Friday, right after that hearing, I was in Houston. I was doing a round table with labor leaders. And then after that, I was in the club, and then I was up first thing in the morning and I was hitting the road. So I will say this um not only am I a different candidate from what we've seen, because I don't know how many candidates that can do all that and then jump into the church on Sunday and be good to go. Um, because that's what we're doing. But we are showing up in spaces that traditionally we don't show up. And that's how you expand the electorate. And honestly, the mood is is insane. Like I get my energy from the people because sometimes in the political bubble in the world, you can get disenchanted. Absolutely. But as soon as I touch grass, as soon as I talk to people, see people, or people see me. In fact, one of the churches that we went to this morning, I had to use the restroom. It was the last church we were going to. And I walk into the restroom and there's a young girl, and she's changing her baby. And she got, she's like, That looked like Jasmine Crockett. Like I heard her say it, but I like ran past her because I was trying to get to the stall. Then I came back out, she was like, I love you down, right? And like I don't know that there's been that many statewide candidates, you know, that have been like loved down by anybody. And um, I do think it's gonna take somebody who knows how to talk to everybody and will show up. Um, and and same thing with East Texas, because I know you asked me about that. There were so many people that were like, we never thought we would meet you. There was a young girl from Wiley College when I was in Marshall who was shaking and crying because she was like, You're my hero. And she was like, I never thought that I would meet you. I can't believe that you're here. Um, a similar story in Texas, Canada. There was a young girl that said, You helped me get into law school. She was like, and you never even met me. She said, and I'm here to tell you that I literally just graduated law school, but I wanted to go because of you. Like that kind of impact and that kind of um experience doesn't really just happen just being a politician. And I think that that's just one of the reasons that we're gonna win this thing.

Doubters, Racism, And Qualifications

SPEAKER_03 5:15

And I want to talk to you about those young people and those young black girls that are seeing you and are energized by by your race. There's been some conversation, not always as loud, yeah. Um, but it's there that Texas may not be ready in this moment for a black woman like you to lead statewide. Kamala Harris dealt with the same type of undertones, right? And you're much more boisterous than uh Miss Ms. Kamala, okay? Um and I love it. Uh she dealt with it while running for president. So what are you hearing behind the scenes and how do you respond to those doubters?

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Yeah, so uh listen, uh if I'm being honest, there there's there's evident racism and sexism. That's just a reality, right? And I would be um real green if I didn't believe that that was something that I needed to calculate. Um, but I believe that what I bring to the table um affords me an opportunity to overcome that. And so, you know, I think what's been most upsetting is getting it from my side of the aisle. Um, and so it's clear that racism is not limited to a party. Um, it is just a thing that unfortunately has infected um this country. But I'm not deterred. I mean, I'm not running in Iowa.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

I'm running in a state where 61% of the people that live in this state are people of color. So I get it if we were talking about maybe somewhere else, but we're talking about Texas. Um, and frankly, if you study the numbers, if you look at the numbers, the people that aren't showing up are people of color. And so giving them, giving those girls something that they can show up for and want to show up for, then we can increase the voter participation. We only see a little bit more than 50% of our voters turn out in the first place in Texas, of those that are registered. This is about getting more people to turn out, getting the excitement and getting them to the polls. And that is how we win. Um, I will also say that we lost as a whole in this country because we allowed ourselves to be divided. Right now, the only thing that people should be focusing on is whether or not I have qualifications. And frankly, I got receipts because that's what I do, but I've got qualifications. I'm the only person in this race that has federal experience. I'm the only person in this race that is actually an attorney. We are the body, we being the U.S. Senate, is the only body that has oversight over the Supreme Court. We are also the body in which every single um uh person that is appointed to any judicial bench has to actually get confirmed. So I have practiced law both on the state and federal level. So we don't need to wait until we find out that Eileen Cannon is a bad judge when she does what she does. We need somebody that can actually put somebody through the fire. And most importantly, what Democrats, Republicans, and independents are looking for is a fighter, a fighter for them. And so a lot of people say they're a fighter, but we're realizing that a lot of people are giving lip service because there's a lot of people that are getting out of government, both Democrats and Republicans, because they can't fight in this moment. And so the question is who is it that you know is a proven fighter for the people on this level in this environment? And the final point that I'll say is this a lot of people got a lot of stuff to say, but I'm a data-driven person. Yeah, the numbers don't bear out. And so people want you to believe that, especially the Republicans want you to believe, oh, she's not viable. But guess who they attack all the time?

SPEAKER_03 8:38

All the time.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

They only attack me. I mean, the attorney general put out an ad that only features me and Corny. He's ignoring Wesley Hunt because he's not concerned about Wesley Hunt. He's coming after me because he's concerned about me, he's concerned about Corny, right? So there was a recent poll that came out that was extremely flawed in a lot of ways. And we had our own poll that was in the field, and we're about to drop the results of that poll.

Why One Poll Misses Reality

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Just so people don't get- Oh, we're talking about the Emerson poll?

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Correct. Tell me about it.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Okay, all right. So I'm a numbers girl. Yeah. Um, before all the law, this is what I did, um, was numbers. I was business major, emphasis, and finance. So when we evaluated the poll, number one, it's an outlier. There is no poll that's ever had me trailing, period. No matter who did the poll, no matter what the methodology is. Um, it the methodology in general was problematic. You always want to make sure that you get a good cross-section of the ways that you test so that you can get to most people. So think about your granny. Your granny may be the most um dedicated voter you can find in the whole family, but your granny probably not on social media. She's probably not online like that. So, like when you do a panel and maybe it's just online, it's never gonna be as accurate because you're only gonna get a certain cross-section. But beyond that, okay, the biggest issues with this poll is that only 28% of the people in the poll were self-identified Democrats. That's it. 28%. Um, a little bit, I think it was right at 30% of the people on the poll were self-identified as independents, and then 42% of the poll or so uh were self-identified as Republicans. Now, when we get to this general election, it is not gonna be their independents are gonna show up in bigger numbers than Democrats. Like Democrats will not be only 28%. But what is so interesting is that that sample size, when we look at all of those people, that sample size was a statistical sample size that you could use. It was 1,150 people, maybe, right? There was only one person that was beating a Republican. It was me. So even in something that is not skewed to my favor, I'm actually beating Paxton. In my internal polls, we showed before I got into the race, we showed that I actually was ahead of a Republican.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

How much faith do you have in those polls? Because again, the headlines right now from this poll, which I'm sure you and your team have reviewed, shows Talarico ahead by nine points, it says, right? You're still overwhelmingly leading the black vote. When you see stuff like that, and I know you said you guys have something that's coming out here soon, how do you respond like in the moment? Because it's one thing for you to point out every single detail in the numbers, but that's not what people are seeing, right? And I didn't get into that.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

And that's and that's why it was done. Yeah. I mean, that's why it was done. Um, but frankly, uh, as I talked to some other people that have been Emerson's, um, is what I'll call it. That's what we'll call it. Um, they basically were like, yo, it gets your supporters more fired up because they they want you to win. So they were like, it is what it is. So we're letting it ride. But we got an actual real poll that is not an outlier that actually looks more like every single other poll. Um, and for people that don't know, like swinging an election almost 20 points um in a matter of a month in a state the size of 30 million is almost impossible. And if something swings that way, some big stuff had to happen. There had to be big money that was spent on one side or somebody had to have a big scandal on the other. And none of that has taken place. So listen, I also will say this is that people thought Hillary was gonna win and she didn't. People thought Barack was gonna lose and he didn't. Don't worry about what a poll say. Now, I use polls for a completely different reason.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

I was about to ask now, do we care about the polls or we don't?

SPEAKER_02 12:38

No, no, no, no, no. As a voter, you don't need to that ain't your that ain't your area. That's not what you need to that the polls are not for voters. The polls are for us to use internally to understand where voters are. They are not for the voters. You go vote for whoever it is that you feel like is going to best represent you. The poll ain't for you. It is for me to have information. So if for some reason I was to get into this race and not have a chance, I needed to know that. That's not the case. The reality is that we've never had a candidate that has been in a statewide race for any position and has only been in for a little over a month and is already leading in the polling. So to me, that tells me I'm at a floor. That tells me that what I need to do is once I start spending, I only go up. I've not spent money and I'm leading.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

What do you say to folks, uh, Congresswoman Crockett? And I've seen, I'm sure you've seen it too. Um, a very progressive podcast, or so we thought, has said some some unkind things. And one of the things that was said was, um, I'm voting for the white guy because basically that's my people. Like that's why I'm voting for the white guy. And so I guess I want to know from your standpoint, how different is that from somebody saying, Um I'm voting or rocking with everybody black?

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Yeah, well, I I will tell you that you know, there's a lot of black people that don't rock with other black people. Yeah. Because all we're not a monopoly. Kim folk. Yeah, and Kim folk. Okay. Yeah. So I I will say that. Um, I will also say this, listen, you know, I don't know when I'll get into all the details, but just know that nobody was talking about this race before I got into it. Nobody was talking about it. And uh everything is about me. Like that that's what it is, right? Like all the noise, it's about me, right? And it is um seemingly coming from out of state mostly. Um, and I will say that in in campaigns, you know, a lot of different people get involved. Um, I will say though, that it is real interesting that there is an attempt to break into um the non-political space, which is a space that I occupy very naturally, um, and try to convince the non-politicos that there's a problem with me. And I think it is because I excel in those spaces as well as others.

SPEAKER_03 15:15

Say what non-politicals mean when you're talking to someone who's just not into any of this stuff at all. That's exactly what it means.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

That that person right there, right? So the the the the reason that I am so viable is because I've never limited myself to CNN or MS now or, you know, the places where only those that are really engaged in politics are. I've always made sure that I communicated with people on every single level in every space that I could find. And so there is this kind of cultural crossover that I have. And so what's there's an attempt right now is to get into the cultural kind of crossover. And basically what they said on the other podcast, because it seemed like we got all these this is coordinated. I just let me just say it's coordinated. That's what it is. It is what it is, and it's politics, and so here it is. But you've never heard a podcaster say something like, don't send somebody money. Ever. Ever, right? So here it is, it's like, don't send such and such money. Then it's like, oh, look, this person is ahead in the polls, which typically would keep donors from sending money, right? So if I'm not viable, why do we care if I got money or not? If I'm not viable, why everybody trying to check to see what's in my pockets? Because what I do is I run my own race, my own way, and I've never put out my numbers early or anything like that. And frankly, I don't think I've ever put out my polling. Um, because polling is not for the general public, it is for my internal use, so I can know, okay, you need to pivot here. This is where you're still strong, this is where you're not strong. It's a very internal thing, right? But because people are trying to use polling to justify votes and that kind of stuff, that ain't what

Money Attacks And Corporate PAC Talk

SPEAKER_02 17:14

we do.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

I want to talk about something you just mentioned, funding and people all up in your pockets and trying to figure out what's going on. I talked to Talerico recently and he told me real change can't happen without cleaning up the system. And he says he's never taking corporate pack money. What's your take on that? And is reformed just the first step, or is this part of an even bigger picture for you?

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Yeah, I mean, if if he's not taking corporate pack money, it's because he's not on the federal level. He has taken money, though, on behalf of corporations. So it's it's dependent on how you so so let me break this down as somebody who's worked on both the state and federal level. Um there had been reporting about a specific woman who is a devout Republican who believes that Donald Trump should have another term, who is quite wealthy, um, and she is very big on APEC. She gave him money on the state level. All right. Now people are like, oh no, it doesn't matter because it was for the casinos. Are you talking about the Adelson family? I am okay. It was for the casinos. Casinos would be what? A corporary corporate corporation, right? Go ahead. That would be a corporation. So I I'm not really sure. I guess because I, you know, at the end of the day, taking money on behalf of a corporation is taking money on behalf of a corporation, no matter whose name is on it, you know, whatever. So, so I, you know, people like to play funny business. Um, I will say that, you know, there are people, first of all, in this Senate race, I've not taken any corporate PAC money because I feel like people are trying to engage in distractions. And use that as something they're trying to engage in distractions, and I want people to be focused. Second of all, and people don't know that because my report hasn't come out yet, but they will that I've not taken any corporate pack money in the Senate uh race. As it relates to the House, though, I've given away almost $600,000 just in my freshman term. Um, you add to that, I had to stop giving because I'm doing the other thing right now. But I've given away almost $700,000 to other people to try to help people in other races. And you've showed up. And I've showed up. I've done both. And I've raised over $4 million for the Democratic caucus, right? So for me, um, when I've taken any quote unquote corporate PAC money, for instance, Goldman Sachs was one that was brought up. Goldman Sachs is one of the companies that is in my district. Goldman Sachs has employees at that company. Those employees have money that comes out of their check, and then it goes to help support candidates that they then believe in. So I didn't feel the way because these are the employees, and many of these employees are people that live in my district. And so, do I feel like I should be someone that they feel like they can have pride in? Because they may not feel like, you know, if I give her $5, that's enough. But like collectively, okay, cool. We have caps on it as well. So it's a maximum of $5,000 that you can get in pack money. I've raised millions of dollars. So I can guarantee you, and no one's ever questioned whether or not my record was tied to any money because that's where people kind of get where it's like, oh, it's kind of icky because I feel like you're gonna do something on behalf of somebody. But at the end of the day, I've always had relationships, especially with me representing downtown, yeah, because I gotta look out for people and make sure they got jobs. Make sure that I'm pushing them to the limit when I'm looking at their diversity or lack thereof. So I've always engaged in these conversations. Um, but I don't want any distractions. And at the end of the day, we're gonna win this thing. So I'm not, but I do want people to know that I wanted to help other people too.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

I want to ask you this about distractions, because I know we're getting short on time, but when it comes to distractions, you know, people have pointed out that uh on your website they don't see the issues or what have you. If they follow your page, they've heard you talk about it, no doubt. I want to ask you, what are your top three, two or three topics that you're running on that people need to know? And is there a strategy behind why you guys haven't put them out on the site?

SPEAKER_02 21:21

So to be clear, my opponent has been in this race for five, six months and only maybe a week and a half put out his issue page. Um we are working on mine. Mine actually is a little bit more in depth to put together because I feel like there's more that's required of me because I am the one that's on the federal level. So I don't get to just say, Oh, I'm gonna file this or I'm gonna do that. I gotta actually show the receipts for what it is that I've done, right? And so I have actually um signed on to I think more than a thousand bills. That's a lot. Yeah. So it it takes a lot, so it it is a slow process, but it is my goal because I'm the one. got in and got in when when I got in. Um but I I would say that I would ask for people to have grace around the fact that um I am still going to do this in a quicker and shorter amount of time than anybody else in this race. So I just want to be clear on that.

Affordability, Health Care, And Turnout

SPEAKER_02 22:16

I think that if you don't start with affordability, then you just don't know what you're doing. We know that the cost of living all around has gone up. We know wages have been stagnant. Specifically in healthcare a lot of folks just worried healthcare specifically especially in Texas. Yeah. You know it's not even gotten as bad as people know. Yeah. The big ugly bill pulled one trillion dollars out of the healthcare ecosystem. They timed it to where that stuff is not going to hit until right after the midterms. That means that when you think about your local hospital or doctor's office, when you're looking at who is actually going in to see the doctors, we all technically pay some money in. You're not just going to be able to replace the say million dollars that was normally coming in from Medicaid or Medicare. So that means everybody else has to pay more or that entity has to shut down. So we have some of the fastest closure rates of rural hospitals in the state of Texas right now. Are you telling rural voters that when they're going out there like what's going on? I I don't listen there's a perception that I got an issue in rural, but I'm good. Yeah. I served on the ag committee I've talked to Texas farmers and ranch for a very long time. I was endorsed by Texas Farm Bureau both this cycle as well as last yeah I'm saying do those rural voters understand what's to come? They they do. Okay. I mean some of them. Okay. It's it's more so you know whether or not people are projecting on their budgets, right? So we've seen some of those closures already happen because they know what's about to happen. But still for me it is important to connect the dots of why we're experiencing certain things and that's why I have to show up so that I can tell them this ain't got nothing to do with the Democrats. If you got a problem right now just know that in the state of Texas the Republicans run the House, the Senate, as well as the governor's mansion and on the federal level Republicans run every single thing. So if you are feeling any pain, just know it's not because of a Democrat. It is because of a Republican somehow somehow.

SPEAKER_03 24:13

Yeah. Your opponent when I when I had a conversation with him he knows you got the black vote on lock. Let me just be very clear about that. How are you not taking that for granted? Because I feel like in the Democratic race race is that's often taken for granted like people assume that they just have the black vote right like everybody just gonna vote Democrat just because it's there. Not everybody but y'all get what I'm saying. So how are you making sure you're not taking the black vote for granted and really leaning into to what black voters need.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Listen um black folk are my base. I mean that's just the bottom line um and so I show up in black spaces. That's what I do. I show up really everywhere because I've always been the type of representative that represents for everybody. But when I'm in church on Sundays I'm in black churches on those Sundays um you know we did 17 events in two days last weekend where I went through I don't know maybe six, seven cities. And on that particular Sunday I did I think six churches on that day. I've never done as many black churches or churches in general in any campaign. So listen I'm a show up at all of the the urban events um again was on stage with Tyrese. One of the unique things that that I have available to me is the number of surrogates that are ready to get engaged on all levels. So many celebrities are ready to come through and do whatever they can. And so I'm grateful for the friendships and the relationships that I have and the people that really believe in me. This is beyond politics because like these are people that people don't even know I know, right? But they're like, oh no like you're our girl like I I am willing to take my platform and use it and I'm willing to pull up for you. So you're gonna see a lot more of that in general. It's just kind of that cross-cultural connection but you know I also showed up for the state championship games right where we had 2000 people that showed up for our high school state championships and three of the teams belong to me thank goodness and we ended up with two state champions out of that. But I was on the field everybody was there including Senator John Corning right so I believe in showing up in all places and speaking to all people but I agree with you that the Democratic Party has failed in neglecting people of color in general and in this campaign even in the general I am being very clear. I am going after people of color stop believing that the savior is going to be going to find some mythical crossover voter and they're not talking about black or brown. Come on don't think that we just gonna show up we may not show up and vote for a Republican but we will stay on the couch. We will say that both sides are the same and when you have a candidate that talks like or seems like they're a Republican because that's what Democrats want to do, they say the only way you can win is if you talk like a Republican. And play the middle. But the reality is that you actually lose the plot because what they haven't realized about Republicans and I'm gonna tell you a prominent Republican was texting me yesterday. He knew I was in East Texas. A prominent Republican texted me and told basically told me that he's gonna vote for me right come the general if certain things are happening. Okay that person knows me very well like knows that I am first of all knows me well enough to text me. Second of all knows that I'm not a Republican but I'm real and I'm always going to do the things that I believe in the things that will benefit all of us right like we may disagree on abortion and some other stuff but they understand that I know how to govern and I am always going to stand my ground. Republicans will accept somebody who's less than perfect. That's how we got a 34 count convicted felon. Democrats are searching for perfection and you will never find it because it doesn't exist on this earth right so what we need to understand is when you start to just give people lip service or say I'm a Democrat but then you start trying to sound like you're a Republican, Republicans actually get turned off. They don't agree with it. They believe that you are less authentic because they're like well why are you a Democrat if you're talking like this right so I listen I can tell y'all that we are going to go out we are going to continue to be who I've always been I had somebody text me and say are you gonna change because you're running for Senate I said no I didn't get here by being somebody different. Yeah I got here by being me. And frankly I don't want to govern or I don't want to do things and then ultimately I'm like a what Fetterman?

unknown 28:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Like I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

Like I am I am going to go in I am going to be honest I am going to be authentic and I tell you that Republicans can respect that a lot more than kind of this wishy washy let me try to sound like I'm one of you because if I want to be you why why do I want the generic yeah I can get the real thing right I don't have any more questions but I always want to leave some room is there something that you want to tell folks that are looking at this and have anything.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Listen just block out the noise because we didn't block it out last time we got distracted we got divided this is about unity we got to stick together because right now all of us are in the same sinking ship. I only want to fight for every single one of us. I am a civil rights lawyer that is what I did not so I could run for office but because I believed in equity for really the most forgotten, the most overlooked and really the most downtrodden folk. I'm always gonna have your back and and the receipts bear out. So when somebody tries to define me as some people say I'm too defined being defined is very helpful because people know that I am a fighter and that I am real. When you are undefined they get to decide who you are and they get to tell your story as they challenge whether or not our vice president was black. Are you serious right now? I I I guarantee you they are never going to challenge my blackness because I have been defined as a black woman right so just know they want you to be scared they want you to feel like you're getting hoodwinked I don't do anything unless I study I study what it is that I'm doing. And there is a reason that the frontrunner in this race at the time that I got in Colin Alred there's a reason he got out it wasn't just I mean this is the guy who was the dim nominee. He got out of this race that should tell you everything you need to know y'all heard what she said.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

Congresswoman Crockett thank you so much thanks for making time for us absolutely he said you go down baby she she's showing up for black media hello somebody okay always thank you so much appreciate it appreciate you