Crockett Forced to Defend ‘Slave Mentality’ Remarks About Latinos

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who declared her intent to run for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn this week, had to defend previous racially charged remarks she made about Latino voters who cast ballots for President Donald Trump in the Lone Star State during the 2024 election.

During a Tuesday segment, CNN’s Jake Tapper challenged Crockett by quoting her remarks from an interview last year with Vanity Fair magazine, where she implied that “Latinos” who voted for the president had a “slave mentality.”

“Now, about the time that that was published last year, around 1 million Latino voters in Texas were voting for Trump. Do they all have slave mentality?” Tapper asked.

“No, and that‘s not what that said at all, to be clear. It did not say that every Latino has that type of mentality,” she began.

“No, no, but the ones that vote for people that believe in strong or Trump‘s immigration policy,” Tapper interjected.

“So I don‘t believe that the people that voted for Trump believe in what they‘re actually getting. That is number one,” Crockett responded. “What Trump said is that he was going to kick out the bad guys. And that‘s what I was talking about.”

While Trump did run on a platform of deporting “the worst” illegal alien criminals, he also ran on the issue of “mass deportation” of anyone in the country illegally, which led to a record number of Hispanic votes.

“I‘ve been down to the border. I‘ve been down to south Texas. I‘ve campaigned down there and so I am talking about exactly what was going on when I was down there on behalf of the Beto [O’Rourke] campaign. In fact, when he was running for governor I was sent as a surrogate, and I said, talk to me about what is going on. Why is it that they believe that they can win Latinos down here?” Crockett continued.

“Like, I don‘t understand what‘s happening. And there were people that were saying that they had fought and they had done everything the right way and that there were bad people that were coming that were doing it the wrong way. And so, they were saying, no, we left,” she said, without directly addressing her prior remarks.

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