Chances are, if you’ve heard of U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, it’s because the Texas Democrat has emerged as one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile inquisitors on Capitol Hill.
So much so, in fact, that Crockett, 44, who’s in the running for a top House committee post, has gotten death threats for her comments.
Trump, in turn, has taken to referring to Crockett, an attorney who handled pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter defendants, as “low IQ” — one of his favorite insults.
Even with all that heat, Crockett said she keeps getting a surprising message from Republicans.
‘I think that (Trump) is listening to the polling,” Crockett said while appearing on ‘The Jim Acosta Show’ this week.
“Republicans poll all the time. And I have no idea what all is happening in their polling,” she told Acosta. “But I can tell you in real life that I’ve had a number of Republicans approach me as they see me out, and they say, ‘Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I really like you. Like, we come from completely different parties, but I believe that you are fighting for the people. I believe that you are trying to do what’s best for all of us. I may disagree with, like, how you feel like we get there, but I agree with your fight.”
And she said she believes that is what frightens Trump and his MAGA followers when it comes to her.
“I think that’s what’s scary for them is the idea that it’s not just, say, Black folk that are listening to me, right?” she said. “Or it’s not just, like, super liberal folk. It’s this idea that, you know, people who even aren’t Democrats would actually listen to what I have to say.”
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