HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is seriously considering running for the Senate, she revealed in an interview last week.

“I’m seriously weighing it to the extent that I’m about to spend a lot of money to get data,” the congresswoman told host Dasha Burns of Politico’s “The Conversation.” “So I’m a data-driven person. I will tell you that I personally believe that Texas needs to do something different if they wanted different results. That’s just the bottom line.”

No Democrat has won a Senate election in Texas since 1988. Republican Sen. John Cornyn is running for reelection next year to serve a fifth term. Crockett said her decision on a campaign will be last-minute, explaining that the candidate who wins the Democratic primary election will also need to be successful in the general election.

“I’mma be flat-out with you and tell you that I don’t think that there’s a Democrat that can take out Cornyn,” she noted.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) agrees and is spending a lot of money on Cornyn’s primary campaign to make sure he wins, Crockett claimed. The National News Desk could not confirm, though, and the NRSC didn’t respond to a question about its expenses by the time this article was published.

Texas has historically had much better Democratic Senate candidates than Republican ones, but Democrats often lose, the congresswoman added. She said a lack of voter participation has contributed to the Democrats’ performance and that future candidates need to shift strategy to achieve better results.

“I don’t think that we have the luxury, especially with us having such an early primary, of actually doing what we normally do, which, we spend about $100 million to get someone’s name ID up, but the way that I look at elections is that that’s just first base,” Crockett said. “It’s like, ‘Oh, great. We know your name.’”

It’s unclear how much voter participation and name recognition have affected Democrats’ performances. Crockett noted that she already has high name recognition, though, and is mentioned in Senate polls among other Democrats who have previously campaigned statewide, like former Reps. Beto O’Rourke and Colin Allred.

“Beto had two state runs, and then we also know that Colin Allred just ran statewide. I’ve only represented, at most, 1/38th of the state,” Crockett said. “So to have my name ID right up under them without ever having run statewide, in addition to the fact that the vast majority of these polls have me either being in first or [close to first].”

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