{"id":159933,"date":"2026-02-28T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=159933"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:21:44","slug":"kamala-harris-endorses-jasmine-crockett-in-texas-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=159933","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kamala Harris Endorses Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Race&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-endorses-jasmine-crockett-texas-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Former Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas in the state\u2019s Democratic primary race for Senate, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms. Crockett is locked in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial following on social media. Ms. Crockett, a second-term congresswoman, has crafted her image as a bare-knuckled partisan fighter in an era in which Democratic voters have been drawn to candidates who vocally oppose President Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The endorsement from Ms. Harris,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/02\/27\/kamala-harris-jasmine-crockett-robocall-texas-senate-democratic-primary\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier reported by The Texas Tribune<\/a>, came in a recorded phone message sent to Texas Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTexas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,\u201d Ms. Harris says. \u201cJasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Former Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas in the state\u2019s Democratic primary race for Senate, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago. Ms. Crockett is locked in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159934,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159933\/revisions\/159934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}