Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says she understands why people feel like the Democratic party only comes knocking when it needs something.
The legislator from the Lone Star state was frank while talking about the fallout from the 2024 election during Tuesday’s episode of the “Outlaws” podcast with TS Madison, a production of iHeartMedia’s Outspoken Podcast Network.
While she said President Donald Trump misled about lots of his far-right policy plans, one thing he did campaign on was his “crazy ideas” about the tariffs now wreaking havoc on the American economy.
Crockett was baffled by the fact people heard him promise to put sweeping import taxes in place and still voted for him, only to respond by tanking his approval ratings after his trade policies started jacking up prices.
Frustrated that Democrats weren’t able to communicate how the cost of tariffs would get passed on to American consumers, she said, “A lot of this stuff he lied through his teeth, but he at least told you about the tariffs, and y’all wouldn’t take two minutes to try and understand what we were trying to tell you.”
