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Talarico's answer when I asked him last week about the "God is nonbinary" line:
James Talarico won the Texas Senate Democratic primary—but now the real ugliness begins, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports. It’s “open season” for Republicans, a consultant told her:
Last week, Jasmine Crockett's campaign kicked me out of an event because (they alleged) I am a "top-notch hater."
My story about that—and what today's primary election between Crockett and James Talarico means for Democrats—here:
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Online, the Texas primary has gotten ugly—but that drama was far from the minds of the voters @elainegodfrey.bsky.social spoke with, who seemed to like both of their options. “Rather than policy, their preferences came down to style—and not much else,” Godfrey reports.
@elainegodfrey.bsky.social: Representative Jasmine Crockett claimed I wasn’t kicked out of her rally. Here’s the audio.
Jake Tapper talks to my colleague,
@elainegodfrey.bsky.social about the Crockett flap.
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This week, the Atlantic staff writer @elainegodfrey.bsky.social was escorted from a Jasmine Crockett rally in Texas. On this episode of “Radio Atlantic,” she speaks with @adamhsays.com about Crockett’s confrontational style and the upcoming primary election in Texas:
Texas lawmaker James Talarico is young, well-spoken, and eager to talk with Republicans—just what some Democratic dreamers think they need to finally turn the state blue. But first, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports, he’d need to win the primary. She spoke with him in 2025:
"Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
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Where many Democrats hear “Abolish ICE” as a righteous call to action, others in the party register the clanging of alarm bells, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports.
“Execute the traitors!” he shouted into a megaphone. “I wanna see executions!” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
It "was one of the few times that Trump’s most extreme supporters actually encountered the Republican lawmakers who have stoked their anger and encouraged their delusions for years."
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Five years ago I was buying a hot pretzel from some guy on the Ellipse, hoping Trump would finish up soon, when a bunch of guys in riot gear started walking toward the Capitol.
I followed them, and wrote about what I saw:
Ultimately, Turning Point's Alex Clark isn't worried about losing women to the Democrats.
As more young men turn to the GOP, so will young women, because it's their "natural instinct to follow strong men and strong leadership," she told me.
Link:
Bathroom sex, slut-shaming, and a fight over the size of someone’s engagement ring—I’d like to think this story has a little something for everyone.
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"Democrats have decided to embrace a big-tent mindset. Now comes the hard part" - @elainegodfrey.bsky.social
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Wrote about the $10 million effort to change the Democrats—and help the party start winning again www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Even as most congressional Republicans are avoiding their constituents, Mark Alford of Missouri bucked his party and held 15 public events this week. @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports on what the representative heard:
Democratic voters have said they want a fighter, and now they might have one in Jasmine Crockett, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. She spoke with Crockett about testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.
Democratic voters say they want fighters, and Jasmine Crockett has spent years trying to be one.
I spent several days with the Texas congresswoman this summer—in D.C., New York, and Atlanta—as she tested out her theory of Democratic politics in the second Trump era.
Democratic voters have said they want a fighter. They may have one. @elainegodfrey.bsky.social's new profile of Jasmine Crockett, who is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first. She told me that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.”
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Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first. She told me that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.”
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But many of Crockett's colleagues declined or ignored my interview requests. Senior staffers for some of those colleagues told me that some of the members see Crockett undisciplined—but are reluctant to criticize her publicly.
Some of Crockett’s fellow Democrats find her candor refreshing. “People don’t necessarily agree with her aggressive communication style,” Representative Julie Johnson of Texas told me. “I’m thrilled she’s doing it, because we need it all.”
The problem is that the forthrightness Crockett's supporters love seems to be undermining her relationships in the party.
“She likes to talk,” one staffer told me. “Is she a loose cannon? Sometimes. Does that cause headaches for other members? 100 percent.”
Jasmine Crockett is testing out the idea that when Republicans go low, Democrats should meet them there.
Republicans understand this, Crockett told me. “Marjorie is not liked by her caucus, but they get her value, and so they gave her a committee chairmanship.”
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Last year, Crockett was a keynote speaker at the DNC and a national co-chair of the Harris campaign. This year, she's been a top party fundraiser.
Everywhere we went, people wanted selfies, and yelled things like "First black woman president!"