众议员贾丝明·克罗克特声称，如果她失利，种族主义将是罪魁祸首，而竞争对手詹姆斯·塔拉利科被指控称科林·奥尔雷德是”平庸的黑人男子”
作者：查尔斯·克里茨、艾玛·科尔顿
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月13日 美国东部时间下午6:00
得克萨斯州本初选季爆发激烈种族言论，民主党候选人纷纷采用身份导向的宣传策略，共和党人谴责这种做法具有分裂性，是”最糟糕的’觉醒’表现”。
得克萨斯州民主党在初选季面临党内斗争，这场斗争正日益蔓延至种族和身份议题。竞选参议院席位的众议员贾丝明·克罗克特暗示，如果她失利，责任将归咎于种族主义；而众议员科林·奥尔雷德则指控克罗克特的竞争对手、奥斯汀州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉利科在一场影响参议员和众议院选举的政治争执中称他是”平庸的黑人男子”。
“这些令人作呕的言论是最糟糕的’觉醒’表现，而民主党人的沉默令人发指。”共和党全国委员会发言人扎克·克拉夫特对近几个月得克萨斯州出现的言论如此评价。
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得克萨斯州众议院民主党议员詹姆斯·塔拉利科（左）与得克萨斯州众议员贾丝明·克罗克特握手。（鲍勃·登姆里希/盖蒂图片社）
克罗克特正竞选参议院席位以接替共和党参议员约翰·科宁，她对此做出激烈回应：
“你以为我在醒来决定竞选美国参议院时不知道自己是黑人女性吗？你以为我没有考虑并确保我们有足够的空间来考虑这一点吗？”
近几周，随着民主党人关注备受瞩目的竞选并试图在这个红色州动员蓝党选民，种族焦点的冲突不断爆发。
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“看看参议院初选中，’觉醒思维病毒’如何在得克萨斯州民主党人中像野火一样蔓延。詹姆斯·塔拉利科上周为他的’白人特权’道歉，而贾丝明·克罗克特正效仿卡玛拉·哈里斯的做法，预先将自己的失利归咎于种族主义和性别歧视。”克拉夫特告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
就在本月，得克萨斯州众议院少数党领袖、民主党州议员吉恩·吴因2024年一段采访片段被重新曝光而遭到强烈反对。在那段采访中，他称白人美国人是”非白人”的”压迫者”。
“有一种观念认为，’美国真的只属于白人’，很多人认为上帝把美国交给白人统治，任何时候移民和少数族裔在这个国家取得进步，都被视为对他们的冒犯。”吴在2024年接受《定义美国》播客采访时表示，”每个人——拉丁裔、亚裔和黑人——都被刻意分裂，因为强大的势力花费时间和金钱确保他们无法团结。相反，这些群体被推到彼此对立，尽管他们有共同的压迫者，而我声称这种压迫’来自一个地方’。”
吴出生于中国广州，他补充道：”我总是告诉人们，当拉丁裔、非裔美国人、亚裔和其他群体意识到他们有共同的压迫者时，我们就开始胜利了，因为我们现在是这个国家的多数派。我们有能力接管这个国家，做每个人需要的事情，让一切变得公平。”
这段视频在网上传播后迅速引发得克萨斯州人的谴责，包括共和党参议员泰德·克鲁兹称”民主党建立在偏见之上”。
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得克萨斯州众议院民主党核心小组主席吉恩·吴在2025年8月18日得克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的众议院会议结束时参加新闻发布会。（布兰登·贝尔/盖蒂图片社）
奥尔雷德最近在南卡罗来纳州前民主党全国委员会主席杰米·哈里森的播客中表示，塔拉利科在他还是参议院候选人时私下里对他发表了另一个贬低性评论。
奥尔雷德随后退出了竞选，并正在寻求达拉斯附近新划区的第33国会选区席位。目前该选区由民主党众议员马克·韦西代表。
“他对我说了一些我不喜欢的话。在他参选之前，他说他认为自己会是更好的候选人，因为他没有家庭，可以花更多时间竞选。”奥尔雷德说。
“你知道，杰米，我不认识我的父亲，所以我非常重视做我两个儿子的父亲，对吧？我当时想，不，不，不，我参选是为了我的家人。”
一位名叫摩根·汤普森的TikTok网红最初声称奥尔雷德发表了”平庸的黑人男子”言论，她回忆了在普拉诺举行的塔拉利科集会上的对话。
“詹姆斯·塔拉利科告诉我，他报名竞选是为了挑战一个平庸的黑人男子，而不是一个强大且聪明的黑人女性。”汤普森说，补充说她现在支持克罗克特。
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奥尔雷德声称塔拉利科说他”会成为更好的候选人，因为他没有家庭”。（米格尔·J·罗德里格斯·卡里略/法新社；鲍勃·登姆里希/得克萨斯论坛报/彭博社）
塔拉利科很快发表声明，称这是”对私人谈话的误解”，并表示他谈论的是奥尔雷德的”竞选方式”，而非他的个人生活。
“我绝不会基于种族攻击他。”塔拉利科说，”作为美国的黑人男性，科宁格议员必须加倍努力才能取得现在的成就。我理解我的批评可能会被解读为这个国家痛苦的种族主义遗产，但我非常关心我的言语对他人的影响。”塔拉利科在接受《得克萨斯论坛报》采访时表示。
塔拉利科最近宣布，在本季度前六周的竞选活动中他筹集了740万美元。
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他未回应置评请求。克罗克特的竞选团队也未回应其竞选邮箱中的查询（由于《哈奇法案》，该邮箱与她的官方国会办公室分开）。
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Texas Dem Senate primary fractures over race rhetoric as ‘mediocre’ jab, ‘oppressor’ remarks ignite backlash
Rep. Jasmine Crockett claims racism will be to blame if she loses while rival James Talarico faces accusations of calling Colin Allred ‘mediocre Black man’
By Charles Creitz, Emma Colton
Fox News
Published February 13, 2026 6:00pm EST
Heated racial rhetoric in Texas is flaring this primary season, as Democratic contenders lean into identity-focused messaging that Republicans say is divisive and a clinic in “wokeness at its worst.”
Texas Democrats are heading into primary season with an intraparty fight that is increasingly spilling into race and identity. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who is running for the Senate, has suggested racism would be to blame if she loses, while former Rep. Colin Allred accused Crockett rival and Austin state Rep. James Talarico of calling him “a mediocre Black man” in a political spat affecting races in the Senate and House.
“These disgusting comments are wokeness at its worst and the silence is deafening from Democrats,” RNC spokesman Zach Kraft said of the recent rhetoric out of Texas in recent months.
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Texas State Rep. James Talarico, D-Travis, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, shake hands.(Bob Daemmrich/Getty Images)
Crockett, who is running for the Senate to replace Republican Sen. John Cornyn, offered a fiery response.
“You think I didn’t know I was a black woman when I woke up and decided that I was going to run for the U.S. Senate? You think I didn’t factor in and make sure we had enough room to account for that?”
Racially focused flare-ups have broken out in recent weeks as Democrats eye high-profile races and try to energize blue voters in the red state.
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“Look no further than the Senate primary to see how the woke mind virus has spread like wildfire among the ranks of Texas Democrats. James Talarico spent last week apologizing for his ‘white privilege,’ and Jasmine Crockett is taking a page out of Kamala Harris’ playbook by preemptively blaming racism and sexism for why she will lose,” Kraft told Fox News Digital.
Just this month, Texas Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu, the minority leader of the Texas House, drew backlash over a resurfaced clip from a 2024 interview in which he described white Americans as “oppressors” of “non-whites.”
“That there is a sense of, ‘America really just belongs to White people,’ that this was that a lot of people believe that God gave America to White people to rule, and that any time that immigrants, minorities make progress in this country, that that is seen as a slight against them,” Wu, of Houston, said in 2024 on “Define American” podcast with Antonio Vargas.
Wu, who was born in Guangzhou, China, added that Latinos, Asians and Black Americans — “everybody” — are kept divided because powerful forces have spent time and money ensuring they do not unite. Instead, he argued, those groups are pushed to see each other as rivals even though they share the same oppressor, and he claimed the oppression “comes from one place.”
“I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they are — that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now,” he continued. “We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
The clip set off swift condemnation from Texans as it circulated online, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz saying, “The Democrat party is built on bigotry.”
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Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu attends a news conference at the conclusion of a House meeting on August 18, 2025, in Austin, Texas.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Allred recently told former DNC chairman Jaime Harrison of South Carolina on his podcast that Talarico made another disparaging comment about him in private while the former Tennessee Titans linebacker was still a candidate in the Senate race.
Allred has since dropped out and is seeking a newly drawn 33rd Congressional District near Dallas. The current 33rd District in the Metroplex is represented by Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey.
“He’s said some things to me that I don’t like. He said to me before he got into the race that he thought that he would be a better candidate because he doesn’t have a family, and that… he could spend more time campaigning,” Allred said.
“As you know, Jaime, like I didn’t know my dad, so I’m like all about being a father to my two boys, right? I was like, no, no, no, I run because of my family.”
A TikTok influencer named Morgan Thompson originally claimed Allred made the “mediocre Black man” comments, recounting the conversation from a Talarico rally in Plano.
“James Talarico told me that he signed up to run against a mediocre Black man, not a formidable and intelligent Black woman,” Thompson said, adding she now supports Crockett.
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Allred claimed that Talarico said he’d “be a better candidate because he doesn’t have a family.”(MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP; Bob Daemmrich/The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg)
Talarico released a statement soon after calling the situation a “mischaracterization of a private conversation” and said he was talking about Allred’s “method of campaigning,” not his life.
“I would never attack him on the basis of race,” Talarico said. “As a Black man in America, Congressman Allred has had to work twice as hard to get where he is. I understand how my critique of the Congressman’s campaign could be interpreted given this country’s painful legacy of racism, and I care deeply about the impact my words have on others,” Talarico said, according to the Texas Tribune.
Talarico recently announced that he raised $7.4 million in the first six weeks of the quarter in his contest against Crockett.
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He did not respond to a request for comment. Crockett’s campaign also did not respond to an inquiry left in its campaign inbox, which is separate from her official congressional office due to the Hatch Act.
Fox News Digital’s Marc Tamasco contributed to this report.
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