Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett believes that former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election because of rampant racism in America.
Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala, Crockett claimed that the “person that should have been president” did not win last November because of racism.
The Texas Democrat said she almost couldn’t bear to listen when Harris took the stage one day later to give her concession speech.
“I almost couldn’t get out of bed. When I tell y’all – I’m getting emotional,” she continued, her voice cracking, “I traveled this country because I knew, I knew it was going to be bad. I didn’t know it was going to be this f***ing bats***.”
“But I knew. And I knew that the obstacles were going to be even greater because not only was it a woman, but it was a woman of color,” Crockett added.
Crockett has been making headlines this year for all of the wrong reasons.
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Crockett on Sunday, encouraging her to “tread very carefully” after the Democrat suggested that Elon Musk should be “taken down.”
“She is an elected public official, so she needs to tread very carefully because nothing will happen to Elon Musk, and we are going to fight to protect all the Tesla owners throughout this country,” Bondi vowed on Fox News.
Bondi reiterated her commitment to putting an end to the widespread violence against Tesla owners and dealerships. This includes putting electric cars on fire and painting mean things on them.
Many were upset with Crockett’s comments during a nationwide call with the Tesla Takedown movement. This is a self-described “peaceful protest platform” that wants all Tesla stockholders to sell their cars and all Tesla owners to sell their cars.
“On March 29, it’s my birthday. All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down. I have learned, as I serve on the DOGE Oversight committee, that there is only one language that the people that are in charge understand right now, and that language is money,” Crockett told the group in reference to an upcoming “Global Day of Action” intended to hit back at the company.
Crockett went on to clarify that her calls to action are “nonviolent” and are about figuratively “fighting” for democracy.
“We know that we are peaceful, loving people, and this is not about violence,” she added in part.
Some Republicans have called on the FBI and the Justice Department to launch an investigation into Crockett for inciting violence against Tesla dealerships and owners.
The push for a probe of the outspoken Democrat comes after AG Bondi charged three people last week with “domestic terrorism” related to alleged attacks on Tesla dealerships.
The dealerships, as well as charging stations and individual vehicles, have been attacked, presumably as a protest against its CEO, Elon Musk, and his involvement with President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“I’ve been so proud to see us organize behind a cause because here’s the deal the things that we’re fighting for, we are fighting for our country, we’re fighting for democracy, we’re fighting for our freedoms,” Crockett said during a recent podcast interview, per a clip posted online.
The clip led Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona to lead other members of his Party into calling for an investigation.
“I think the rhetoric is abominable,” Biggs said in an interview with Steve Bannon. “It’s not what we would call political discourse, it’s not civil discourse, and so today I sent a letter, joined by a number of my colleagues, to FBI Director Kash Patel, and I’ve reminded him what USC 18 § 2335 says about domestic terrorism, and that’s what’s happening here. And domestic terrorism includes people who are inciting. And they’re using this domestic terrorism to actually try to intimidate government officials to change policy. That is what you are seeing happening here.”
“And these, these members of Congress, they’re just as culpable, criminally, quite frankly, as, in my opinion, as those that are actually throwing the Molotov cocktails at the Teslas and are doxing people, just simply because they own cars,” he added. “What they are saying is that they want to see these people punished physically and violently, that is contrary to law. That’s domestic terrorism. And I think Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, I think want to get on this, and so we sent that letter to Director Patel and we want to see some action.”
In the letter to Patel, the GOP lawmakers said that the statutory definition of domestic terrorism includes activities that “involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, such as violence or threatening or intimidating,” The Washington Times reported.
The lawmakers said that the attacks are intended to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion are also acts of domestic terrorism.”
“Of course, these despicable acts are growing in an organized way to intimidate ordinary citizens who simply own a car manufactured by Tesla,” the group said. “Those behind this conspiracy of violence are now trying to dox Tesla owners and are encouraging vandalism and violence.”
