{"id":509984,"date":"2026-01-12T03:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:59:16","slug":"we-deserve-better-jasmine-crockett-brings-senate-campaign-to-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509984\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We deserve better\u2019: Jasmine Crockett brings Senate campaign to San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sign up for\u00a0TPR Today<\/a>, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.<\/p>\n

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett made a campaign stop in San Antonio on Sunday as part of her bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n

Crockett spoke to a packed house at Tony G\u2019s Soul Food restaurant on the city\u2019s East Side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that we deserve better. I believe that we can get better and frankly I believe that we can do better, and that is why I am running to become the next senator from the state of Texas,\u201d she told the crowd.<\/p>\n

\"Jasmine<\/p>\n

Jerry Clayton<\/p>\n

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Texas Public Radio <\/p>\n

Jasmine Crockett speaks to supporters in San Antonio 1\/11\/2026<\/p>\n

Crockett also addressed critics who have questioned her decision to run.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people say, well, congresswoman, you should just stay in the house because we need your voice. We need to make sure you\u2019re gonna be there because, you know, Texas likes to do Texas things. We can\u2019t afford to lose you in this moment. But I never signed up for public office to be anybody\u2019s safety blanket. I signed up because I wanted to make change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"Supporters<\/p>\n

Jerry Clayton<\/p>\n

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Supporters and media hear Jasmine Crockett speak in San Antonio 1\/11\/2026 <\/p>\n

Her decision to run comes after newly drawn congressional maps drastically reshaped her North Texas district. She launched her Senate campaign shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas\u2019 new congressional maps to take effect.<\/p>\n

Crockett last week agreed to debate fellow Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico in Georgetown on January 24.<\/p>\n

On the Republican side, Cornyn is seeking a fifth term but faces a primary challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, setting up a high-profile intraparty fight ahead of the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for\u00a0TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-509984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115880130259576686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}