Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett rambled about “education” when a reporter asked her to describe the Democratic Party’s playbook for the 2026 midterm elections during an interview posted to YouTube Wednesday.
Crockett acknowledged in a March interview with “Lone Star Politics” that she was more focused on opposing President Donald Trump than passing legislation in Congress. In an interview with FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, reporter Steven Dial asked Crockett what “the Democrat playbook for the midterms” was and whether the party would focus on denouncing Trump or discussing “kitchen table issues.” (RELATED: Dem Rep Thinks Potential Gov’t Shutdown Could Save Bureaucrats From Getting Booted By Trump Admin)
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“You act like I got the playbook,” Crockett quipped.
Dial then asked what she personally believes is the “playbook.”
“The winning playbook, I think overall, is just communication and education. I think that you can talk about kitchen table issues all you want to, but it comes down to actually having a rapport and making sure that people actually understand what it is that you’re talking about,” Crockett said. “I don’t think that we failed to talk about kitchen table issues, but basically, Trump was simple and lied, right? Like he said, ‘Hey, the price of eggs are high. I’ma reduce it on day one.’ It was a very simple message. It was a lie.”
Dial interrupted to note that egg prices are decreasing, which Crockett acknowledged was true.
“After they went up through the roof … let’s be clear. And honestly, they may be down for the second, but again, having people be educated about what it is that the FDA does and talking about things such as the bird flu and talking about if you have less birds because they are sick, then that’s less eggs,” she said. “But the demand is still the same, then the price goes up. Like, we have to make sure we do education. One of the other issues that I think that we had is that people didn’t understand that the global pandemic was the cause of our inflation. They were like, ‘Oh, everything’s high,’ and they just said, ‘Well, that’s the person that’s in office,’ instead of actually having this global conversation.”
The congresswoman also claimed that voters did not comprehend what the effect of Trump’s tariffs would be.
“Or one of the things that he was honest about is that he actually was going to institute tariffs,” she said. “The problem was people didn’t understand exactly what a tariff was because he was able to tell you, ‘You know what? And it’s going to be those foreign countries that pay for the tariffs.’ So everybody’s like, ‘All right, cool.’ Like — but that’s not the case. And so I think that our win is in the education.”
“I think it is why I place an emphasis on making sure that we can do things such as our teletown halls, why I place an emphasis on coming in and having an actual dialogue with my seniors, because I do want to make sure that they understand what’s going on,” she continued. “And I want to break it down into the simplest terms that I can, because some of this can be really, really complicated. But I think our win is in our education and our constant communication.”
Democrats, including Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Ken Martin, have argued that the party’s issue isn’t their policies but rather a “messaging” problem.
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