The woman who branded herself "Texas Tough" apparently couldn't get her own campaign website right. Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's Senate bid hit an early embarrassment when multiple errors were discovered on her campaign page — including a bullet point under her mental health policy section that still contained placeholder instructions for her own staff.
The original text, spotted by senior CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere before Crockett's team rushed to fix it, read exactly as follows:
"Requiring all major insurance providers to include full mental healthcare coverage, including prescription medications and therapiesWrite out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works"
That's not a typo. That's a template instruction left on a live campaign website for a United States Senate race. Online users also discovered that a bullet point about gun control had been dropped into the Social Security section — a mix-up that suggests nobody on Crockett's team bothered to read the final product before publishing it.
The errors were corrected after they were flagged. But the damage — to whatever credibility the campaign had built — was already done.
If this were an isolated stumble, it might deserve a shrug. Campaigns move fast. Websites get built in a hurry. But Jasmine Crockett's Senate bid has been collecting problems the way other campaigns collect endorsements.
Start with the money. A Federal Election Commission filing revealed that Crockett's campaign spent at least $75,000 on exclusive hotels, transportation, and security — a figure that drew scrutiny when it surfaced in November, according to The Hill. For a two-term House member representing a Texas district, that's a lifestyle line item, not an operational expense.
Then there's the lien. County records reviewed by Fox News Digital showed Crockett purchased a Dallas condominium in May 2014. By April 11, 2024, the Westside Condominium Association had filed a lien against the property. The filing language is blunt:
"[Crockett] is in default in her obligation for payment of assessments and has failed and refused and continues to fail and refuse, despite demand upon her, to pay the Association assessments and related charges properly levied against the Property."
The amount owed: $3,047.79. The lien gives the association a legal claim on her unit and blocks her from selling the property until the debt is settled. This story broke in December — the same month she announced her Senate bid.
A congresswoman who can't pay a $3,000 condo assessment wants voters to trust her with federal fiscal policy. The joke writes itself.
Crockett has built her national profile almost entirely on viral confrontation. She's the congresswoman who called Marjorie Taylor Greene "a bleach blonde bad built butch body." She labeled Trump "Temu Hitler." She called Trump supporters "mentally ill."
That's the brand: combative, loud, perpetually clippable. It works on social media. It gets you booked on cable news. What it doesn't do is build a Senate campaign infrastructure — the kind of operation where someone reads the website before it goes live, pays the bills on time, and accounts for $75,000 in hotel and transportation spending.
Social media users noticed the gap between the persona and the product. One commenter called it a "hot mess." Another offered the more surgical assessment:
"A very serious campaign that is definitely trying to win and not grift."
A third suggested the obvious explanation for the placeholder text:
"Somebody used chatgpt to iterate and no one read the final graphic lol."
Whether the sloppy website was AI-generated or just poorly managed, the result is the same: a candidate who demands to be taken seriously while offering no evidence she's earned it.
Crockett launched her Senate campaign roughly two months ago, and the March 3 primary is approaching fast. She's set to face Rep. James Talarico in the Democratic primary — a race that just got a little less crowded after ex-congressman Collin Allred announced he would seek a House seat instead, saying he dropped out to avoid an ugly primary and a likely runoff.
The eventual Democratic nominee would face Republican incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the general election — or potentially AG Ken Paxton, who has been named as a primary rival.
For Texas Democrats, the Senate seat is already an uphill climb. Running a candidate whose campaign can't manage a website, whose FEC filings raise spending questions, and whose condo association had to file a lien to collect $3,000 — that doesn't narrow the gap. It widens it.
There's a familiar pattern in modern Democratic politics: mistake attention for competence. Build a following through outrage clips. Monetize the confrontation. Then, when the time comes to actually run something — a campaign, an office, a policy agenda — discover that going viral isn't the same as going to work.
Crockett's website errors are small in isolation. But they sit alongside a spending record that invites questions and a personal financial situation that undermines her credibility on kitchen-table issues. Voters can forgive a typo. A placeholder instruction that reveals nobody on your team read the page? That's not a typo. That's a tell.
Texas deserves a Senate race fought on substance. Right now, one side can't even fill in its own bullet points.
