Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are adept at creating digital media moments and collecting social media followers. Now Crockett and Talarico are facing off March 3 in the Democratic Texas Senate primary. Crockett is a Dallas-area congresswoman and lawyer known online for feuding with President Donald Trump and other Republicans. Talarico is a state representative and Presbyterian seminarian who quotes Jesus and calls himself a policy wonk. Both have hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers and posts that have collected millions of likes. Whomever Democrats nominate will say a lot about what they see as their best strategy for breaking Republicans’ hold on the state.
