If you haven’t been paying attention to the Texas race, here’s a quick primer. Still, Democrats cannot win Texas, a state where Trump beat Kamala Harris by almost 14 percentage points, without flipping at least some Republican voters. Crockett, by contrast, has always represented a deep blue district and has never had to run a seriously contested general election. This gets to something important for the general election, and which I think may be Crockett’s Achilles heel. Let’s grant for the sake of argument that she has the ability to mobilize new Democratic voters.

Source: Fox News January 23, 2026 17:54 UTC