In the 118th Congress, Crockett serves as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the (approximately) 35 newly-elected Democratic members.[1] Crockett was named as co-chair of the 2024 Harris-Walz campaign.[2]
In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to serve as mayor of Dallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term, which Lorraine Birabil won.[9] Crockett challenged Birabil in the 2020 Democratic primary. She narrowly defeated Birabil in a primary runoff, advancing to the November 2020 general election, which she won unopposed. She assumed office in January 2021.[10][11]
On November 20, 2021, incumbent U.S. representativeEddie Bernice Johnson of Texas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022.[12] Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett.[13][14] Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC giving $1 million in support of her campaign.[15] In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election,[16] which Crockett won.[17] She then won the general election on November 8.[18] Crockett was chosen to be the 118th Congress's freshman class representative.[1]
Crockett voted in favor of three military aid package supplementals for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, respectively, in April 2024, along with most of her fellow Democrats.[22][23][24]
In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Biden, Crockett criticized fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans for being hypocritical. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, and those who brought-forth charges against President Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of President Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside of a bathroom (and other locations lacking security), to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me."[25][26][27]
Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention and referenced the incident. When comparing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Republican nominee Donald Trump, she said of the latter, "He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chair—y'all know what I said the other time."[28] She won the second term to House of Representatives in 2024.[29]
Crockett has been noted for her (at times, comedic) use of alliteration. In an Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene remarked, unprovoked, to Crockett: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading." Committee chairman James Comer ruled that this remark did not violate House protocol. To clarify the limits on personal comments, Crockett asked "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"[33][34] Comer responded with "... a what, now?" On August 19, 2024, the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Crockett, speaking about Republican nominee Donald Trump, asked, "will a vindictive vile villain violate voters' vision?"[35]
Electoral history
2020 Texas's 100th state house district Democratic primary[36]
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