Carville claims Crockett broke the ‘first rule of politics’ in Senate bid by talking about herself

Democratic strategist James Carville slammed Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Thursday, claiming she “broke the first rule of politics” by talking too much about herself when she launched her campaign for the Senate.Crockett announced her candidacy for the Senate on Monday, hours after previous Democratic frontrunner Colin Allred withdrew his candidacy in favor of running for a House seat.
The Texas Democrat claimed during her kick-off event that a lot of people were telling her not to run for the upper chamber and remain in her solid blue district in the House where the voices of her constituents would be heard, but she insisted “what we need is for me to have a bigger voice,” according to The Hill.
“First of all, she seems like she’s well-educated,” Carville said on his “Politics War Room” podcast. “Seems like she’s got a lot of energy. But to me, she violates the first rule of politics and that is, in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself. If you listen to her talk, it’s a lot more about herself than it is about the voters.”
Carville praised Crockett’s main opponent in the Democratic primary, state Rep. James Talarico, stating that he has potential because he makes his campaign about the voters, even as he lacks name recognition. 
“We know what wins elections,” Carville said. “We just do, and what wins elections is not sitting there talking incessantly about yourself. Winning elections is not about how many clicks you get or how much overnight fundraising you do. Winning elections is part of framing issues and understanding where people come from.”
Crockett is running for her party’s nomination for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn’s seat. Cornyn is running for reelection but faces challenges on the right from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas GOP Rep. Wesley Hunt. 
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