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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who declared her intent to run for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn this week, had to defend previous racially charged remarks she made about Latino voters who cast ballots for President Donald Trump in the Lone Star State during the 2024 election.
During a Tuesday segment, CNN’s Jake Tapper challenged Crockett by quoting her remarks from an interview last year with Vanity Fair magazine, where she implied that “Latinos” who voted for the president had a “slave mentality.”
“Now, about the time that that was published last year, around 1 million Latino voters in Texas were voting for Trump. Do they all have slave mentality?” Tapper asked.
“No, and that‘s not what that said at all, to be clear. It did not say that every Latino has that type of mentality,” she began.
“No, no, but the ones that vote for people that believe in strong or Trump‘s immigration policy,” Tapper interjected.
“So I don‘t believe that the people that voted for Trump believe in what they‘re actually getting. That is number one,” Crockett responded. “What Trump said is that he was going to kick out the bad guys. And that‘s what I was talking about.”
While Trump did run on a platform of deporting “the worst” illegal alien criminals, he also ran on the issue of “mass deportation” of anyone in the country illegally, which led to a record number of Hispanic votes.
“I‘ve been down to the border. I‘ve been down to south Texas. I‘ve campaigned down there and so I am talking about exactly what was going on when I was down there on behalf of the Beto [O’Rourke] campaign. In fact, when he was running for governor I was sent as a surrogate, and I said, talk to me about what is going on. Why is it that they believe that they can win Latinos down here?” Crockett continued.
“Like, I don‘t understand what‘s happening. And there were people that were saying that they had fought and they had done everything the right way and that there were bad people that were coming that were doing it the wrong way. And so, they were saying, no, we left,” she said, without directly addressing her prior remarks.
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Meanwhile, a report from earlier this week said that Crockett has had an unpaid lien of more than $3,000 on her luxury condo in Dallas for more than a year.
A notice of a lien filed on April 11, 2024, and available to the public on the Dallas County Clerk’s website, says that Crockett owes the Westside Condominium Association $3,047.79, according to county records Fox News Digital reviewed.
The notice said that Crockett “is in default of her duty to pay assessments and has failed and refused and continues to fail and refuse, despite demand upon her, to pay the Association assessments and related charges properly levied against the Property.”
The lien gives the Westside Condominium Association in Dallas a legal claim on the unit. This means that Crockett can’t sell or transfer the property until the debt is paid.
Fox News Digital got confirmation from the Dallas County Clerk’s Office on Tuesday night that there is no record of the lien being released. This means that Crockett has not yet paid the overdue amount.
According to a Homes.com listing for Westside Condominiums, the complex is a gated community that offers residents a “refreshing retreat” and “comfort and convenience in a secure setting.” The complex is complete with a pool, clubhouse, sleek kitchens and bathrooms “designed with spa-like features.”
“The more we learn about Jasmine Crockett, the more clear it is that she’s the worst possible candidate to run for Senate in Texas,” a longtime Democratic strategist who has worked with campaigns across the country, told Fox News. “Recent weeks have shown she’s just not ready for primetime.”
