Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) slammed Vice President JD Vance, saying his recent attacks against her were “racist.” One expert in public humanities breaks down why the vice president’s digs were predictable and straight out of the “GOP playbook.”
During an appearance on “The View” on Tuesday, Crockett was asked to respond to Vance’s attacks last month, in which he mocked the congresswoman’s Senate bid and said she had a fake “street girl persona” during his speech onstage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona.
“And Jasmine Crockett. Oh, Jasmine Crockett,” he said as the crowd could be heard booing. “The record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails.”
Crockett said on “The View” that she believes conservatives are concerned that she’s able to reach a demographic — those without a college degree — that “Democrats have been losing.”
“So now he’s [Vance] is like, ’Oh no, no, no it’s all fake, don’t believe that,” she said. “No, the reality is that I was a criminal defense attorney, I was a public defender, I am somebody who walked into plenty of jails and dealt with real killers.”
