Jasmine Crockett heads to Virginia to stump in close House
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) was in Virginia this week to campaign for Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) in the Old Dominion’s 7th Congressional District as she…
Jasmine Crockett couldn’t win her own Senate primary in Texas, so now she’s in Virginia trying to win someone else’s House race. That alone tells you what this trip is really about. **Crockett is auditioning, not organizing.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) was in Virginia this week to campaign for Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) in the Old Dominion’s 7th Congressional District as she stays off the Texas Senate campaign trail.
Crockett, who ran for Texas Senate in 2026 but fell in the heated Democratic primary to State Rep. James Talarico, backed Talarico in his race against Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, but has not yet campaigned with the Democratic Senate nominee in her home state. Instead, Crockett has campaigned for downballot U.S. House candidates in Texas and now hits out-of-state marginal districts, like Vindman’s.
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“It was great to have Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in VA-07 getting folks ready to turn out and vote this November! Awesome turnout and even better energy,” Vindman wrote on X Wednesday, following her get-out-the-vote and fundraising swing in the district.
Vindman promoted that the two candidates went to church together and held a lunch with leaders and members of local historically Black fraternities and sororities.
Virginia’s seventh district is ranked as a likely Democratic district by the Cook Political Report due to Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) double-digit margin in the area in 2025 and Vindman’s now $5.7 million war chest. However, the district shifted slightly toward Republicans in May, and the Virginia GOP sees an opening for a flip with retired Army lieutenant colonel and Republican nominee Doug Ollivant. Crockett is not the only Democratic Party rising star to campaign recently in the district; she follows Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), who stumped for Vindman last week.
Crockett started her own PAC called the FIRE, or Fueling Individual Rights Everywhere, PAC earlier this year, and has rolled out dozens of endorsements for candidates in Texas and other states. Her PAC backed the candidates, saying they have “demonstrated people-first leadership, held firm against injustice, and are working to reshape politics.” As of Wednesday afternoon, the published list of endorsements did not include Talarico, but neither did it include Vindman.
Outside of Texas, her FIRE PAC endorsed three candidates in California, including Democratic gubernatorial nominee Xavier Becerra, and Stacey Plaskett in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“I support all Democrats. Yes, that includes James Talarico, who I endorsed the day after the election,” Crockett said in early October, though she has not yet campaigned with him.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to Crockett for comment.
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Jasmine Crockett couldn’t win her own Senate primary in Texas, so now she’s in Virginia trying to win someone else’s House race. That alone tells you what this trip is really about. Crockett is auditioning, not organizing. She lost to James Talarico, offered him a tepid endorsement, and then left the state instead of helping him battle a serious general election. A party matriarch would stay home. A cable news celebrity goes where the cameras are.
Virginia’s 7th is close enough that Democrats feel the need to fly in outside help. Eugene Vindman is their guy. He made his name on the first Trump impeachment, not on any local issue that matters to voters in that district. Now he gets Jasmine Crockett, another national left-wing personality, parachuting in to make the race about Trump, subpoenas, and the Resistance. Vindman is exactly the kind of Democrat who loses touch with the district. This is the same playbook that keeps underperforming in suburbia.
Republicans would be smart to let Democrats run this race their way. Every time Crockett opens her mouth, she reminds Virginians what the national Democratic Party actually sounds like: loud, performative, and permanently angry. Celebrity over constituency is the whole modern Democratic playbook. Vindman might still be competitive, but he has chosen to make his campaign about cable news controversies instead of Virginia priorities. That is a gift the GOP should happily accept.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.

