Jasmine Crockett on Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Her Own Party's Struggles (Politico)

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In a new interview, the Texas Democrat gets candid about Democratic messaging and her role in the party.

For liberals who lament the Democratic Party’s ongoing struggle to break through with their messaging, the emergence of Rep. Jasmine Crockett represents a rare jolt of good news.

Here, finally, is a Democrat who’s eager to tangle with Republicans on Capitol Hill and gets plenty of media attention for doing it. Someone who gets invited onto Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show to talk about President Donald Trump and his cognitive tests. And Crockett is game.

Now, not every member of the Democratic caucus may be on board with her approach. But in a new interview with The Conversation, she recalled the plaudits she got last year after her viral confrontation with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“There are two little women in their eighties that are high-fiving me,” she said. “It is Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi. Two very well-known, fierce, yet definitely what you would probably consider to be older-school kind of politicians.”

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