White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s “incredibly derogatory” accusation about supporters of President Donald Trump being mentally ill is out of touch.
Crockett said on the “Next Question with Katie Couric” that the current support for Trump indicates a “mental health crisis” across the U.S. and then immediately called for bipartisanship, the Daily Caller News Foundation first reported. Leavitt said that Crockett could “only dream” of getting the level of national support received by Trump.
“I think it’s incredibly derogatory to accuse nearly 80 million Americans of mental illness. The last time I checked, Jasmine Crockett couldn’t dream of winning such a majority of the public as President Trump did,” Leavitt said. “And the America First moment, which President Trump has built, is filled of hard working patriots, the forgotten men and women, business owners, law enforcement officers, nurses and teachers and Middle America, as we all know as everyone who grew up outside of this beltway. That’s who makes up this president’s movement. And Jasmine Crockett should go to a Trump rally sometime and she can see it for herself.” (RELATED: Whoopi Goldberg Slobbers All Over Dems’ Flame-Throwing Rep Jasmine Crockett)
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Trump became the first Republican nominee in 20 years to win the popular vote in the 2024 election, when he received over 77 million votes. By comparison, former Vice President Kamala Harris garnered 75 million votes.
Crockett is known for her divisive and anti-Trump remarks, such as when she called Trump “an enemy to the United States” during an MSNBC interview in March. She has also expressed interest in launching an impeachment inquiry into Trump if she succeeds in being elected as the chair of the House Oversight Committee after the 2026 midterm elections.
The Texas congresswoman baselessly told “The View” co-hosts in February that Trump only had high approval ratings because the American people are not educated enough to know any better.
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