WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett , D-Dallas, appears to be inching closer to a U.S. Senate bid, scheduling a “special announcement” for Monday.

Crockett, a second-term representative with a large national social media following, has teased a Senate run for weeks, saying publicly that she was exploring the possibility via polling and that she believed she could do what no Texas Democrat has done in over 30 years — win statewide — by expanding the electorate.

“I am closer to yes than I am no,” she said in an interview with MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, on Sunday.

In one of the clearest signs that she’s leaning toward yes, Crockett told The Dallas Morning News she called both of her prospective primary opponents, former Rep. Colin Allred and state Rep. James Talarico , to discuss t

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