Updated December 10, 2025 at 2:45pm ET
Two days after Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) announced her run for U.S. Senate, a bombshell report suggests the GOP astroturfed support in order to convince her to throw her hat in the ring.
According to NOTUS, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) put out a poll in July that showed the two-term congresswoman leading the pack in a hypothetical Democrat primary matchup against former Rep. Colin Allred, former Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, and Rep. Joaquin Castro.
Crockett’s name had not previously appeared in Senate polling, so the results sent shockwaves through Texas and D.C. political circles. NOTUS pointed out that Crockett herself admitted in her campaign kickoff that she was encouraged to jump into the race by the positive polling she was seeing.
And a source told NOTUS that was all by design. The NRSC worked to amplify the polling and is now taking credit for helping “orchestrate the pile on of these polling numbers to really drive that news cycle and that narrative that Jasmine Crockett was surging in Texas,” the source said.
And as part of what the anonymous source source called an “AstroTurf recruitment process,” the NRSC allegedly had “allies that were seeding these new polls pretty aggressively into progressive digital spaces.”
With Allred and O’Rourke already removing themselves consideration, Megyn said on Wednesday’s show that the Republicans appear to have gotten their wish. “They wanted the other more threatening Democrat candidates to drop out, which they now have, and they have their very favorite opponent, Jasmine Crockett, to stare down whoever winds up with the Republican nomination,” she noted. “This is exactly what the Dems did to the Republicans in the primary process for the presidential race and other races that were happening – like Senate races and even in the midterms before that – so turnabout is fair play.”
While Andrew Klavan said there is some risk to elevating “radical” candidates, he said this looks like the right move in this particular circumstance. “This savvy and smart. [The Republicans] are usually such buffoons when it comes to dealing with the political landscape, and this actually gives me a little bit of hope that they know what they’re doing,” he said. “I think, in this case, they did the right thing.”
Original article from December 9, 2025 below:
It’s official! Jasmine Crockett is running for U.S. Senate.
The congresswoman from Texas announced her plans to seek higher office on Monday after weeks of speculation. Crockett is now set to challenge Texas State Representative James Talarico in the Democratic primary in March.
Not in the race? Former congressman and failed 2024 Senate candidate Colin Allred, who dropped out of the race hours before Crockett’s announcement and confirmed to CNN that his exit was due to the progressive firebrand’s entrance and a belief that “going through a bruising primary was not in the best interest of the state or the party.”
Crockett’s Rise
Crockett is a relative newcomer on Capitol Hill. The 44 year old was first elected to office in 2022, but she wasted no time rising to national prominence thanks to her bombastic style and nonstop social media content.
She has made headlines for a steady stream of insults and tirades aimed at Republican foes like outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom she referred to as a “bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body” during a Congressional hearing, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, whom she called “governor hot wheels” and then tried to claim that jab had nothing to do with the fact that he uses a wheelchair.
“Crockett, who went to the best private schools to be educated and came on the national scene sounding closer to Eliza Doolittle than Cardi B, now, since becoming a congresswoman, is all about the street,” Megyn noted on Tuesday’s AM Update.
Crockett has taken plenty of heat in return from those she attacks in politics, but her Senate campaign announcement is proof positive she embraces it. Watch below:
Yes, that is actually her launch ad.
The Primary
An October poll from the University of Houston showed Crockett leading Dems with 31 percent of the vote in a hypothetical four-way primary that included Talarico, Allred, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (like Allred, he keeps running for office and losing every time there is a race in Texas).
Democrats – who have not won a statewide race in Texas for more than 30 years, despite spending millions of outside dollars on challengers – have their eyes on the seat currently held by Republican Sen. John Cornyn. He is running for reelection but is facing his own set of primary challengers.
Why She’s Running
Stu Burguiere, who lives in Texas, was Megyn’s guest on Tuesday’s edition of The Megyn Kelly Show and he, for one, was thrilled to see Crockett run. “I absolutely adore the fact that she’s running for this office. I want her to run for every office,” he joked. “I find her incredibly entertaining and so bizarre and just the perfect distillation of everything about the modern Democratic Party. She never, ever knows what she’s talking about. Ever. There’s never a moment she even slips up and connects with something that might be accurate. It’s so incredible.”
What’s even more incredible, he noted, is the notoriety and platform she has managed to achieve. “Many [Democrats in Congress] slave away for years and years and years and years… working on, you know, some healthcare expansion… [or] on how do we reverse 0.9 degrees Celsius temperature rise over a century,” Burguiere said. “They’ll be working on these policies quietly, and they will never get a call from… anyone interested in any of the work they’re doing.”
The same cannot be said for Crockett. “Jasmine Crockett can just come out and say the most insane, bat crap crazy nonsense, and she doesn’t get booked just on MSNBC. She is sitting across from [Stephen] Colbert. She’s doing [Jimmy] Kimmel,” Burguiere added. “She has every booking that you’d want if you were releasing a mainstream film in 4,000 theaters. And for what? All of the incentives perfectly line up for her to continue this bizarre behavior and just show her crazy to everybody over and over again.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Burguiere by tuning in to episode 1,209 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Channel (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.