Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has dropped out of the campaign to be the top Democrat on a critical committee investigating former President Joe Biden’s alleged mental deterioration.
Crockett, a Democratic firebrand, was vying for the position of next-ranking member (the senior member of the minority party) on the House Oversight Committee.
“It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what they were looking for, and so I didn’t think that it was fair for me to then push forward and try to rebuke that,” Crockett told reporters.
In an election by a key House Democratic panel on Monday night, Crockett and two others lost to Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.
Crockett admitted to reporters that she came in last of the four, saying, “They were clear that I was the one that made the least sense in their minds.”
“I accept that, and I think that you have to make sure that you are going to be able to work with leadership if you are going to go into a leadership position,” she said. “I think the people may be disappointed, but at the end of the day, we’ve got to move forward in this country, we’ve got ot move forward for this world, and I don’t want to be an impediment.”
She promised to still be “loud and proud” and a “team player” for Democrats.
Last week, Crockett claimed that supporters of President Donald Trump are “sick” and “mentally ill.”
During an off-the-rails interview with Katie Couric on her “Next Question” podcast, Crockett argued our country is in a “mental health crisis” because Trump was elected and declared she’d “give anything” to have a Republican like former President George W. Bush back in office.
Crockett insulted those who supported the recent military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary in Washington, D.C., as “sick.”
“This idea that we don’t care how many people get hurt. We don’t how we prostitute our service members, you know, thinking that you have your own special little army that’s for you. I mean, it is just, it’s sick. It is really sick. And anybody that supports it is also sick,” Crockett said.
Crockett then linked Trump’s MAGA following to a “mental health crisis.”
“We’ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone, no matter how you affiliate yourself, should be against Trump, period. This is not partisan for me,” she said.
Crockett added that she would “give anything” to have Bush back in office, calling him a “regular Republican.”
“I would give anything to have, sad to say, George Bush. Give me any regular Republican nowadays and I would be happy. But right now we have someone who does not care and he is being enabled by the fact that there are people that follow him and they pump him up,” she said.
“My heart breaks for service members, people that signed up to protect democracy and freedom, not only here, but abroad, and were willing to risk their lives,” she said. “And now, literally, the very thing that they signed up to fight against is now their commander-in-chief. It really breaks my heart. And I don’t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, enough is enough.”
