Former Democratic Rep. Susan Wild unloaded on Jasmine Crockett after the Texas congresswoman left Senate nominee James Talarico off her PAC’s 14-candidate endorsement list, and dismissed critics in raw terms.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is drawing sharp criticism from inside her own party after her FIRE PAC passed over the Democrat who beat her for the Texas U.S. Senate nomination, even as she cast her primary loss as a “racist race.”
Fox News reported that former Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild tore into Crockett on X over the snub, while Crockett insisted she never needed to campaign with James Talarico and told critics to quit the “tabloid lane.”
Talarico, a Texas state representative from Austin, defeated Crockett in the March primary, 52.4% to 46.2%. The day after results were finalized, Crockett publicly congratulated him and pledged party unity. By Monday, his name was missing from the list of 14 state and local candidates her PAC said it supported.
That gap between the unity talk and the endorsement list is what set off the latest fight, another round of internal Democratic turmoil playing out in public.
Wild, a Democrat who served three terms in Congress, did not soft-pedal her reaction. She tied the omission to Crockett’s record of using her platform for herself rather than the team.
Wild wrote on X:
"F--- her. That’s all I can say. And that statement has nothing to do with blind loyalty to Dems," "It has everything to do with her being a narcissistic drama queen who has used her platform (such as it is) only to advance herself. Karma will suck."
Crockett fired back. She accused critics and the press of chasing gossip instead of substance and pointed them toward Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Crockett posted:
"Y’all are corny! Keep receipts. I’ll be happy when people either give a damn about FACTS or news media goes back to the news instead of deciding to ride the tabloid lane. NOW FOR THE 1000th time maybe draft an article about KEN F***in PAXTON. Y’all sound like corny groupies,"
Representatives for Crockett did not immediately respond when Fox News sought comment.
Crockett’s post-primary message sounded different. After Talarico locked up the nomination, she said she called him that morning, congratulated him, and framed the fight as larger than any single politician.
She stated:
"This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue, and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win," "I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot."
Then came the FIRE PAC list. Crockett’s committee, Feuling Individual Rights Everywhere, has raised $144,960 and mostly backs smaller races. The public roster Wild flagged named 14 state or local candidates. Talarico was not on it. Neither was gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa.
Party activists who preach discipline after a loss noticed. So did voters watching Democrats struggle to hold a common line in other contests, including the kind of damage seen when the Maine Senate race unraveled under fresh allegations.
In a conversation posted by the Native Land Pod, Crockett described her failed Senate run as a “racist race.” She also argued she did not need to campaign with Talarico.
That framing landed after a hard-fought primary that included a January debate with Talarico at the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Convention in Georgetown, Texas, and an election-night gathering in Dallas. Crockett had announced her Senate bid in Dallas in December 2025.
Calling a primary defeat “racist” shifts blame onto the electorate and the process. It also collides with her own day-after call for Democrats to “remain united” and put 30 million Texans first. Voters can read both statements and judge which one matches the endorsement snub.
Democrats have spent years attacking conservative planning documents while drafting their own road maps; the same party now watching Crockett’s feud is the one that rolled out a Project 2029 blueprint after successive losses.
The endorsement fight is not Crockett’s first turn in the spotlight for personal attacks and odd priorities. She previously referred to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels.” She has also traded barbs involving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
Crockett entered singer Chris Brown into the congressional record to honor his musical legacy in the Black community, despite Brown’s history of violence against women. Those episodes sit on the same public record as the PAC list and the “racist race” podcast remarks.
None of that history cancels Talarico’s primary win. It does explain why a former Democratic colleague decided the snub was about Crockett first and the party second. In a cycle already packed with confirmation fights and personnel drama, including the scramble around Senate races to confirm Trump nominees, Democrats can ill afford open feuds over basic slate loyalty.
FIRE PAC’s haul of under $150,000 is modest by Senate standards. Its focus on state and local names makes the Talarico omission louder, not quieter. If the committee exists to elect Democrats “up and down the ballot,” skipping the party’s own U.S. Senate nominee is a choice, not a clerical accident.
Crockett told the podcast audience she did not need to share a stage or a trail with the man who beat her. Her PAC list put that claim into practice. Wild answered in kind. The public is left with the day-after unity script, the Monday snub, the “racist race” label, and a former colleague saying the pattern is self-advancement.
Texas Republicans still hold the seat Crockett wanted. Democrats who want it back will need more than press releases about 30 million Texans and more than podcast explanations that turn a primary loss into a racism indictment. They will need candidates who can lose, endorse, and mean it.
When the unity pledge expires before the endorsement list is finished, voters notice, and they should.