Democrat Rep.
Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who recently told the hosts of The View that she was accustomed to being "underestimated" and fully intended to "get it done," is now facing scrutiny over a Senate campaign website rollout that suggests she could not even get the basics done correctly.
According to RedState, the Dallas-area congresswoman, now seeking the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, finally added a long-promised policy section to her campaign site just weeks before early voting begins, only to have it immediately descend into farce. The episode has become a revealing snapshot of the kind of candidate Democrats are putting forward in a state where voters are already skeptical of progressive governance and big-government promises.
The most glaring misstep appeared in the section devoted to mental health, where Crocketts team attempted to outline her policy priorities. Instead of a substantive proposal, visitors were greeted with a placeholder directive to staff that read, Write out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works.
For a candidate who insists she is ready for higher office, leaving internal instructions on a live campaign site is more than a minor oversight; it is a sign of a campaign not ready for prime time. The blunder came roughly two months after she launched her Senate bid and less than a month before the primary, underscoring a lack of basic competence in a race that would require her to challenge an incumbent Republican in a deeply conservative state.
The spectacle invited comparisons to President Joe Bidens frequent verbal stumbles, with critics recalling his teleprompter-style gaffe, "Imagine what we could do next. Four more years, pause. When a Democratic Senate hopeful manages to make Biden look disciplined by comparison, it raises legitimate questions about judgment and preparedness.
Crocketts problems did not end with the mental health section. On her Issues page, she claimed credit for common sense gun reform, only to immediately pivot into a list of Social Security bills she had co-sponsored, as if the two topics were interchangeable.
That kind of policy confusion may play well in progressive circles where reform is a catch-all slogan, but Texans tend to expect clarity when it comes to both their Second Amendment rights and their retirement security. Gun reform and Social Security do not, in fact, go hand-in-hand, except perhaps in the muddled messaging of a campaign more focused on slogans than substance.
After the errors drew public attention, Crocketts campaign quietly corrected the site, a move that fits a broader pattern of throwing out half-baked attacks or proposals and only cleaning them up when caught. Her earlier attempt to tie Republicans to Jeffrey Epstein backfired when it turned out she had the wrong person, forcing her to claim she was merely trying to make a broader point.
If the point was to prove you are intellectually incapable of tying your own shoes, let alone serving in the Senate, then well done, one critic observed, capturing the frustration of voters who expect basic diligence from anyone seeking national office. The pattern suggests not isolated gotchas but a consistent lack of seriousness from a candidate who wants to help write federal law.
Crocketts website fiasco did attract at least one defender, who insisted, "Every website has issues when it launches. The site is cached at the server level. Updates to follow." He later tried to downplay the matter further by describing the glaring placeholders and mismatched policy sections as simple "typos."
For Texans weighing who should represent them in the Senateespecially at a time when federal overreach, border security, and economic stability are front of mindthe question is whether such repeated lapses are mere technical glitches or a preview of how she would govern. Texas, can you really afford to have someone this incompetent represent you in the Senate?
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