Jasmine Crockett SUPER HONEST When Asked If James Talarico Can Turn TX Blue and Lefties Can't DEEEAL

After losing her primary, Rep. Jasmine Crockett has decided the smart move is to publicly shrug at the notion that James Talarico might actually flip the Lone Star State this fall.

Because nothing says "enthusiastic team player" quite like eye-rolling at the polls, obsessing over who is (or isn't) dumping cash into the race, and casually declaring it looks like the same old red status quo while national Dems and Republicans alike treat the place like an afterthought.

That being said, we'd be lying if we said we weren't absolutely entertained and amused by everything going on in the Democrat Party right now.

They really want us to think Talarico can flip Texas blue ... their own party members disagree:

[Sahil Kapur tweet: Asked Jasmine Crockett last night in St. Louis if she thinks James Talarico can turn Texas blue this fall. "I don't know," she said. She doesn't buy the polls, saying they've historically overstated Democrats' prospects in Texas. "I watch money."]

Post continues: "... Republicans start spending money in Texas, then I'll be convinced. But right now, national Republicans decided they wanted to dump money into North Carolina, as well as Georgia. That's where they're fighting, and national Democrats have not decided to dump money into Texas either... I look at: where does the NRSC stand? Where does DSCC stand? Right now, neither one are investing, which tells me that their internals are saying the same thing. So it looks like status quo. I won't get on the ground to really start to feel it until maybe end of September, October, as I start to dig into which races I'm going to help out in, the races that I really feel like we can win."

[Compilation of left criticism of Crockett, incl. Mehdi Hasan: "I mean, if she was a pundit, this is a perfectly good/legitimate answer but she is a Democratic Party politician who lost to Talarico - the only acceptable political answer is 'of course we can turn Texas blue and I plan to do everything in my power to help him do so.'"]

Full disclosure, we had the headline written about this post before we even started digging through the replies because WE KNEW the Left would be mad at her for this.

Tee and hee.