A source says Republicans had an under-the-radar campaign to get Crockett to run for Texas’ Senate seat.

 The American Spectator 

" . . .no matter how divisive or aggressive Paxton might get, he’ll never hold a candle to the obnoxious craziness and idiocy flowing out of Crockett like a machine gun over the next several months." 

. . . "Crockett getting in will make for an absolutely magnificent spectacle. There is no one more aggressively obnoxious, ferociously entitled, or maliciously ignorant on the national political stage at present; she is the politician more Americans love to hate than perhaps any other. That Crockett is as fake as a $3 bill in her ghetto-queen act — she went to just about the most expensive private school St. Louis has to offer, but when she speaks to the folks in the slums of the South Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas she represents, you’d never know it — makes her an even more inviting target.

"And Crockett’s launch ad will only invite even further negative criticism:

"This is a perfect ad if you’re trying to galvanize support from a niche group. It isn’t an ad you want to run if you’re trying to get over 50 percent in a statewide general election.

"I said in the podcast that if you’re a Republican voter in Texas, Crockett getting in and becoming the favorite on the Democrat side — after Beto O’Rourke, Joaquin Castro, and Collin Allred all passed on the race — does one specific thing for you: It gives you the freedom to vote for whoever you want in the GOP primary.

"Against Allred or O’Rourke, who both raised a mind-blowing amount of money and ran reasonably good campaigns against Ted Cruz in previous Senate races (neither won, but neither lost in a landslide), an argument could be made that electability was a real issue Republican primary voters would have to keep in mind. That argument was the one incumbent John Cornyn was prepared to make." . . .  

. . . "According to a source close to the apparent under-the-radar campaign to get Crockett to run, the NRSC decided earlier this year that the congresswoman would be the easiest Democrat to beat and began floating her name. This decision came after a summer meeting at which Texas Democrats Colin Allred, James Talarico, Beto O’Rourke, and Joaquin Castro met to discuss who was the best candidate to take on Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who is seeking a fifth term. (Cornyn has his own primary worries to consider, but we’ll get to that in a minute.)" . . .More...