Former Vice President Kamala Harris is endorsing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) by recording a robocall for the congresswoman, giving her a last-minute push ahead of a competitive Senate Democratic primary on March 3.
“Texas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,” Harris says in the call, per the Texas Tribune. “Jasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.”
Crockett is running against Texas state Rep. James Talarico for the Democratic nomination to the Senate, and the race is expected to be close as early voting wraps up on Friday. Republicans are also facing a competitive three-way primary, with Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) and Attorney General Ken Paxton looking to oust incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
“It’s time to turn Texas blue,” Harris says at the end of the robocall. The former vice president encourages voters to cast an early ballot Friday or vote in person on election day.
No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994. The last Democrat to represent Texas in the Senate was Bob Krueger. Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke came the closest to winning a Senate seat in 2018, losing to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) by 2.6 percentage points.
Harris’s endorsement of Crockett is not a surprise, given the congresswoman was a co-chair of Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign. The former vice president also served in the Senate from 2017 until 2021.
“I wasn’t going to make this decision without having some real conversations with the vice president,” Crockett said in a podcast interview with Native Land Pod last December. “And obviously, she didn’t just run in one state, she’s run in a lot of states, right? And to this day, she still remains a mentor and a friend and an auntie of sorts.”
“Talking to the vice president, it’s tough because she looks at me like I am family,” Crockett said. “So there’s been all the conversations.”
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This is the third endorsement Harris has given out since her 2024 race, all to those who supported her presidential bid. Harris supported New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno in her 2025 campaign and endorsed Dan Koh, a former White House aide in the Biden-Harris administration, in his campaign for Massachusetts’s 6th District to replace Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA). Moulton is running for Senate.
Other high-profile Democrats have waded into Texas’s Senate primary. Former President Barack Obama hasn’t made an official endorsement, but he praised Talarico as a “really talented young man” during a podcast interview last October.