Rep. Jasmine Crockett is teasing a run for U.S. Senate.

Crockett, who represents an urban Dallas district, may enter the primary to oust Republican Sen. John Cornyn, she shared Wednesday, Oct. 22.

"Every other day there's a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas," Crockett said on SiriusXM’s "The Lurie Daniel Favors Show" according to The Hill and Axios.

She suggested that she may enter the race if Texas Republicans succeed in axing her seat during their efforts to dramatically shape redistricting in the state. "If you want to take my seat of 766,000 away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that to where I take your seat that is for 30 million away," Crockett said.

The Texas congresswoman is known for her testy (and viral) exchanges with colleagues, once calling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a "bleach blonde bad built butch body" after the Georgia Republican mocked her "fake eyelashes." She referred to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is in a wheelchair, as "Governor Hot Wheels" earlier this year.

"Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there," Crockett said in March at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles. "And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot (expletive) mess, honey."

Later, she insisted that the remarks were not in reference to his "condition," but instead about "the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable," Crockett wrote on X. Abbott was paralyzed from the waist down by a tree that fell on him while running when he was 26.

During her first extended interview last month since losing the 2024 race to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris named Crockett as a rising star within the Democratic Party when answering a question from Rachel Maddow about endorsing Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race.

Despite her occasional antics in Washington DC, Crockett is a likely frontrunner among Texas primary voters, according to a University of Houston/Texas Southern University poll released earlier this month.

Crockett leads in the poll with 31% followed by Texas state Rep. James Talarico and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who both boast 25%. Rep. Colin Allred lags behind with 13%, while 6% of primary voters were left unsure.

O'Rourke came within less than three percentage points of beating Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 and Allred lost handily to Cruz who cruised to re-election by nearly 8.5% last year. Cornyn beat his last opponent, former congressional candidate and veteran M.J. Hegar, by nearly 10 points during the 2020 race.

Cornyn faces his own looming primary battle with embattled Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton, a staunch Trump ally whose rankled some members of his own party with his personal behavior over the past few years. Paxton faces criticism of his own over a 2023 impeachment trial for alleged abuse of office including bribery and alleged adultery claims levied by his estranged wife, Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, in a July divorce petition.

Contributing: James Powel

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