What Can the Texas Primary Tell Us About Democrats?

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  The Texas Senate primaries are drawing national headlines.

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  You may have heard of the Democratic candidates, Representative Jasmine Crockett,

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  who spat with Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024, lit up social media.

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  If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde,

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  bad built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?

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  A what now?

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  Or James Talrico, who was recently interviewed by Stephen Colbert.

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  An interview Colbert said CBS tried to bar him from airing.

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  I think that Donald Trump is worried that we're about to flip Texas.

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  Both candidates would have a big hill to climb.

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  No Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas since 1994,

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  and promising candidates from Beto O'Rourke to Wendy Davis have tried and failed to change that fact.

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  But people think Crockett or Talrico really could, and it's making them wonder.

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  Is this the year for a Democrat in Texas?

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  This is Radio Atlantic, and I'm Adam Harris, sitting in for Hannah Rosen.

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  Atlantic staff writer Elaine Godfrey has been covering this Texas race and also following Representative Crockett.

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  She profiled her last year.

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  And then, while Elaine was at a Crockett campaign event this week, this happened.

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  We'll get into that soon.

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  Elaine, welcome to the show.

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