Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett recently told The View she was used to being “underestimated” and planned to “get it done” in her Texas Senate campaign. Unfortunately for her, the launch of her campaign’s long-awaited policy page suggests she may have overestimated herself instead.
Just weeks before early voting begins in the Texas Democratic Senate primary, Crockett’s campaign finally added a policy section to her website. The result? A public faceplant. And while it may not top her list of political misadventures, it certainly says a lot about the level of preparation Texans are being asked to trust.
The page kicked off with a section on “mental health,” including a promise to require major insurance providers to—brace yourself—“Write out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works.” Yes, that sentence was actually published on a Senate campaign website. If this was a test, the intern failed, the editor failed, and the candidate didn’t notice.
Then came the “Issues” page, where Crockett highlighted her work on “common sense gun reform” and promptly followed it up with a list of Social Security bills she co-sponsored. In Crockett’s world, apparently, gun policy and retirement benefits are interchangeable. Policy versatility… or policy confusion?
The campaign has since fixed the mistakes, but the episode feels emblematic of the strategy: throw something out there, clean it up later, and hope no one noticed. Spoiler alert—they noticed.
This isn’t her first cleanup job. There was also her misfire involving Jeffrey Epstein, where she tried to link Republicans to “a Jeffrey Epstein,” only to later discover it wasn’t that Jeffrey Epstein. She later claimed she was just trying to make a point. Mission accomplished, just not the one she likely intended.
One defender brushed off the website fiasco by saying, “Every website has issues when it launches,” blaming server caching and calling the problems “typos.” That’s a generous description for publishing placeholder text on a Senate campaign platform.
So now Texas Democrats are left with a serious question: is this the kind of attention to detail they want in a U.S. senator? A campaign that can’t proofread its own policies is asking voters to trust it with national ones.
The good news is, Texans get to decide. And if this website launch is any preview, voters will have plenty of material to consider before casting their ballots. At least the mistakes were caught early—giving everyone a clear look at what “getting it done” apparently looks like in this campaign.