Progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is being slammed online as “unhinged” for using violent rhetoric implying that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, “has to be knocked over the head, like hard.”
Cruz responded to the controversy simply by posting a meme to X.
In response to a question about how Democrats can win elections specifically in the red state of Texas, Crockett said, “I think that you punch, I think you punch, I think you OK with punching.”
“It’s Ted Cruz,” she went on. “I mean, like this dude has to be knocked over the head, like hard, right? Like there is no niceties with him, like at all. Like you go clean off on him.”
Responding to the clip, the White House’s “rapid response” X account, called Crockett “another unhinged Democrat inciting violence.”
Crockett was recently warned by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to “tread very carefully” after calling for Elon Musk to be “taken down.”
Popular conservative account “Libs of TikTok” also chimed in, calling for Crockett to be investigated.
“Rep Jasmine Crockett: I am totally against violence! Rep Jasmine Crockett on the same day: Knock Ted Cruz over the head and punch your opponents,” the account said, adding, “The Democratic Party is the party of violence and hypocrisy.”
Cruz responded to Libs of TikTok’s post about Crockett claiming to be against violence with a meme that read: “You keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) commented: “Pro tip: don’t say things like this, whether you’re in Congress or not.”
Crockett came under fire last week as well for saying during a “Tesla Takedown” online call that, “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,” she said.
Crockett has said that her calls to action are “nonviolent” and are about figuratively “fighting” for democracy.
I don’t care how many ways Crockett tries to explain herself violence is violence and it is darn clear what this idiot meant, She needs to be thrown out of Congress , forget the censure bull, that isn’t going to stop her loose threatening lips !!!
She is NOT a nice kind person & she needs to go home & stay there.
This little bitch needs to be stripped naked, tarred & feathered & taken out of DC on a rail!