{"id":4446,"date":"2025-11-23T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/texas-rep-jasmine-crockett-weighs-senate-run\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:08:53","slug":"texas-rep-jasmine-crockett-weighs-senate-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/texas-rep-jasmine-crockett-weighs-senate-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett Weighs Senate Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett is reportedly weighing a bid for the U.S. Senate, spurred by recent polling data. Crockett discussed her potential candidacy and shared insights from the polling data with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, indicating that she plans to announce her decision before Thanksgiving. This move comes as Democrats seek to strengthen their presence in Texas, a state where demographic shifts and evolving political landscapes present both challenges and opportunities for the party.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett&#8217;s remark, &#8220;Listen, they are in a civil war right now,&#8221; hints at internal divisions within the Texas Republican Party, which could create an opening for a well-positioned Democratic candidate. The current Texas senators are Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. While Cornyn&#8217;s seat isn&#8217;t up for election until 2026, Cruz is up for re-election in 2024. With rising stars in the Democratic Party like Crockett potentially entering the fray, the upcoming Texas Senate races are poised to be closely watched and intensely contested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett is reportedly weighing a bid for the U.S. Senate, spurred by recent polling data. Crockett discussed her potential candidacy and shared insights from the polling data with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, indicating that she plans to announce her decision before Thanksgiving. This move comes as Democrats seek to strengthen their presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranians.global\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}