Rep. Jasmine Crockett Struggles When Asked to Explain Party’s 2026 Midterm Strategy [WATCH]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) struggled to articulate a clear strategy for Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections during a recent interview, instead focusing on “communication” and “education” as the party’s key talking points.

The exchange took place during an interview posted Wednesday to YouTube, where FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth reporter Steven Dial asked the freshman congresswoman to outline what she believed was the Democratic playbook heading into the next election cycle.

The interview was part of the Lone Star Politics series.

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“You act like I got the playbook,” Crockett responded when initially asked about the party’s strategy.

When pressed to share her personal opinion on what the party’s approach should be, Crockett focused on the need for better messaging, saying, “The winning playbook, I think overall, is just communication and education. I think that you can talk about kitchen table issues all you want to, but it comes down to actually having a rapport and making sure that people actually understand what it is that you’re talking about.”

She went on to claim that President Donald Trump was successful in reaching voters because of simple messaging, even though she described his statements as false.

“Trump was simple and lied, right? Like he said, ‘Hey, the price of eggs are high. I’ma reduce it on day one.’ It was a very simple message. It was a lie,” she said.

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Dial interjected, pointing out that egg prices are currently dropping. Crockett acknowledged the decline, but qualified it by pointing to previous price spikes.

“After they went up through the roof … let’s be clear. And honestly, they may be down for the second, but again, having people be educated about what it is that the FDA does and talking about things such as the bird flu and talking about if you have less birds because they are sick, then that’s less eggs,” Crockett said.

“But the demand is still the same, then the price goes up.”

She also suggested that the public misunderstood the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on inflation and blamed voters’ lack of “global conversation” for placing responsibility on leadership.

“One of the other issues that I think that we had is that people didn’t understand that the global pandemic was the cause of our inflation,” she said.

“They were like, ‘Oh, everything’s high,’ and they just said, ‘Well, that’s the person that’s in office,’ instead of actually having this global conversation.”

Crockett further addressed Trump’s tariff policy, saying that although he was upfront about imposing tariffs, voters did not grasp their economic consequences.

“He actually was going to institute tariffs,” she said.

“The problem was people didn’t understand exactly what a tariff was because he was able to tell you, ‘You know what? And it’s going to be those foreign countries that pay for the tariffs.’ So everybody’s like, ‘All right, cool.’ Like — but that’s not the case.”

She emphasized that Democrats need to focus on public education and dialogue, particularly with older constituents.

“I think it is why I place an emphasis on making sure that we can do things such as our teletown halls, why I place an emphasis on coming in and having an actual dialogue with my seniors, because I do want to make sure that they understand what’s going on,” Crockett said.

“And I want to break it down into the simplest terms that I can, because some of this can be really, really complicated. But I think our win is in our education and our constant communication.”

Her comments align with remarks made by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair Ken Martin, who has said the party’s challenge is not its policies, but a messaging problem.

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