Far-left Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, has just undergone a week full of flubs and controversies that have her facing a possible censure in the House of Representatives and scathing criticism from the president and White House.

Crockett, who is known as one of the leading young, Progressive Democrats in the House, did not have a good week.

It started with Crockett being warned on Sunday to “tread carefully” by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for her comments saying “all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down” amid a spate of violent attacks and threats against Tesla owners and workers.

Seemingly not heeding that warning, Crockett stepped into another controversy when a video interview of her was released in which she appeared to call for conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to be “knocked over the head.” 

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In response to a question about how Democrats can win elections in the red state of Texas, Crockett said, “I think that you punch, I think you punch, I think you OK with punching.”

“It’s Ted Cruz,” she went on. “I mean, like this dude has to be knocked over the head, like hard, right? Like there is no niceties with him, like at all. Like you go clean off on him.”

These comments earned her a significant amount of outrage by conservatives, with the White House’s “rapid response” X account calling her “another unhinged Democrat inciting violence.”

The main controversy of the week, however, came when Crockett appeared to laughingly mock wheelchair-bound Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, by calling him “Governor Hot Wheels” during a pro-LGBTQ benefit dinner.

The comment sparked national outrage, with commentators on both sides of the political aisle condemning the mockery of disabled people, even if they happen to be governors.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett claims her “Governor Hot Wheels” comment was misinterpreted. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins | Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

“We in these hot a– Texas streets, honey. Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot a– mess, honey!” she said, laughing.

Abbott, who is an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump and a staunch border hawk, has been wheelchair-bound since he was struck by a falling tree while on a jog at age 26.

After the Abbott comment surfaced, Trump weighed in during a Wednesday interview, calling Crockett “a lowlife” and “a very low-IQ person.”

“I don’t imagine the Democrats are going to have a person like that running their party,” the president said.

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President Donald Trump sits down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for an interview. (Fox News/Special Report)

Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital he would soon be introducing a resolution to censure Crockett because of her statements.

Despite this, Crockett refused to apologize multiple times in an interview with FOX Business before growing frustrated and ending the conversation. Instead, the lawmaker pointed to a statement she put out on social media in which she denied the “hot wheels” comment was meant to make fun of Abbott’s condition.

“Why would I apologize when I put out a statement? My statement was clear,” Crockett said when confronted on the matter.

In her online statement, Crockett claimed: “I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition – I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable.”

“Literally, the next line I said was that he was a ‘Hot A– Mess,’ referencing his terrible policies. At no point did I mention or allude to his condition,” she wrote.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett speaks during a House hearing in the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 26, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Kimberly McClain, Crockett’s chief of staff, responded to a request for comment by Fox News, saying, “Please be assured that the Congresswoman, in no way, meant any harm toward the Governor OR meant to take lightly any medical conditions that he may have.”

Despite her statements, Crockett seems to have a pattern of making comments about Abbott “rolling” places, seeming to mock Abbott’s condition.

Just last week, the congresswoman reposted a post featuring Abbott in the White House, which read, “Rolling up to the White House to cheer on the president destroying the agency that makes sure kids in wheelchairs have equal access to education is wild.”

During his re-election campaign against former Democratic Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, Crockett again slammed Abbott on X, saying, “The new nickname I have for Beto O’Rourke is the king of the clap backs! Beto is rolling around the state… Where is Abbott rolling to?”  

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“The View” urged Rep. Jasmine Crockett to apologize for remarks about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. (The View/screengrab | Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Human Rights Campaign)

Amid all this, another video of Crockett, this time speaking with The 19th last week, surfaced of Crockett dismissing the topic of trans inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports as a “distraction,” while minimizing the potential impact they’ve had on the lives of women and families.

“In this election, we allowed ourselves to be divided. We allowed them to distract us, and we allowed them to talk about the trans folk,” Crockett said. “According to them, the trans kids, they want to play sports. That is the biggest issue that we’ve had. Since when? Since when? Find the little trans child that is ruining your life. I mean, I’m just like, what are we doing? Like, what are we doing?”

The scrutiny this week created renewed criticism on Crockett’s past remarks about Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., being in an interracial marriage.

“The fact that you’re sitting around talking about ‘life was better under Jim Crow,’ like, is this because you don’t understand history? Or literally it’s because you married a White woman and so you think that whitewashed you?” Crockett told The Breakfast Club in June, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon. 

Fox News Digital’s Gabriel Hays, Liz Elkind, Jackson Thompson and Anders Hagstrom and Fox News Business’ Hillary Vaughn contributed to this report. 

With longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas announcing his re-election this past week, the expensive and potentially competitive 2026 Senate showdown in the nation’s second most populous state kicked into gear.

Among the big questions regarding the race – will Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a major ally of President Donald Trump and a MAGA favorite, primary challenge Cornyn?

But also being asked is whether the Democrats will once again dish out tens of millions of dollars in hopes of trying to flip a Senate seat blue in red Texas?

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“I’m looking at it and seriously considering it,” former Rep. Colin Allred said last week in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, when asked if he would run a second straight time for the Senate. “This is a time for everybody to realize just what’s at stake and how important it is that we all stay involved.”

Allred, a former Baylor University football player and NFL linebacker who later represented Texas’ 32nd Congressional District (which includes parts of Dallas and surrounding suburbs), was last year’s Democratic challenger in the race against conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz. 

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Allred, who said he would decide by this summer if he’ll mount a 2026 Senate campaign, was the latest Democrat to spend big bucks to try and oust a sitting Republican in Texas.

Rep. Colin Allred, the 2024 Democratic Party Senate nominee in Texas, at a campaign rally in Houston on Oct. 25, 2024. (Reuters/Marco Bello)

He hauled in nearly $93 million and outpaced Cruz in fundraising during the 2024 cycle, although the GOP incumbent brought in slightly more campaign cash overall, thanks to a fundraising head start soon after his 2018 re-election.

Cruz ended up winning re-election last November by roughly nine points, which was much more comfortable than his 3.5 point victory in 2018 over former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who hauled in $80 million – a staggering amount at the time – and outraised Cruz by a two-to-one margin.

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While the 2018 battle between Cruz and O’Rourke grabbed tons of national attention, it was far from the first time Democrats had spent big bucks on an unsuccessful ballot box effort in Texas.

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a watch party on election night, Nov. 5, 2024, at the Marriott Marquis in Houston. (LM Otero/AP)

“The Democrats have been chasing the ghost of a blue Texas since at least 2006, when Tony Sanchez ran for governor against Rick Perry… and all they’ve really done is make a lot of consultants wealthy,” Matt Mackowiak, a veteran Republican strategist and communications consultant based in Texas and Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital.

Mackowiak emphasized that Democrats in Texas “haven’t come close, with the only exception being Beto O’Rourke in 2018.”

“Money is not enough for Democrats to turn Texas blue. It is necessary but not sufficient,” he argued. “What they have to have is something that they don’t have, which is an electable, mainstream, moderate, pro-business Democrat. That category almost doesn’t exist in Texas.”

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke holds a town hall in Waco, Texas, on Aug. 6, 2022, during his gubernatorial campaign. (Fox News )

Asked if the Democrats are pouring money down the drain, Ed Espinoza, a Texas-based communications professional and political analyst who once served at the Democratic National Committee, said, “Every time I was asked that question the past few cycles, I’d say, ‘No, absolutely not.’”

Pausing for a moment, Espinoza then emphasized, “I think 2026 is an important year for Texas Democrats because it’s an opportunity to demonstrate that they’re still in this fight.”

“In 2018, we saw strong Democratic gains in Texas. In 2020, we saw those gains hold. There was slippage in 2022 and 2024 and a lot of that was due to redistricting,” he argued. “But 2026 is the year that Texas Democrats can and must demonstrate they’re still in this fight.”

A bride-to-be’s bachelorette trip with lifelong friends was interrupted by a “horrifying attack” outside a bar one month before her wedding.

Canada Rinaldi, 27, had traveled to Dallas from Oklahoma with a group of six friends when she was attacked after leaving a nightclub shortly before 2 a.m. on March 22, the Dallas Police Department told Fox News Digital.

“So I remember walking toward the back of the car, and then I remember waking up in an ambulance,” Rinaldi told FOX 4 Dallas. “That’s all I remember.”

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In the random attack, the 27-year-old’s nose was broken along with several teeth just one month before her nuptials. She received eight stitches to her face and has a concussion, among other injuries.

The nightmare end of the bachelorette weekend was caught on the dash camera of a rideshare driver. Footage following the attack showed Rinaldi on the ground and a man with a backpack running away.

“And so I saw this man walk up behind Canada, and he reached his arm out, and it kind of looked like he was going to take her cowgirl hat off of her head, but then immediately he just threw his arm back and punched her,” Brienna Rinaldi, the victim’s 23-year-old sister, told FOX 4 Dallas.

A 27-year-old man named Trevon Woodards was arrested on Friday for the attack, FOX 4 Dallas reported.

Woodards, who was recently granted parole, has a criminal history that includes previous charges of assaulting a police officer, misdemeanor assault and burglary, according to the outlet.

Canada Rinaldi, 27, in the hospital after she was attacked after leaving a club in Dallas during her bachelorette party. (GoFundMe)

The women said that no confrontation ensued prior to the attack.

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“I screamed at him. I said, ‘What’s wrong with you?’” Brienna Rinaldi said. “And then, once I saw Canada, I was just screaming her name, and I remember screaming, ‘My sister, my sister!’”

Dash camera footage captured the aftermath of the attack. Canada Rinaldi was lying on the pavement after she was attacked. (KDFW)

The Dallas Police Department told Fox News Digital that its officers were flagged down in the 2600 block of Floyd Street in the Texas city and that a preliminary investigation determined a person had assaulted two victims. Dallas Fire-Rescue was also called to the scene.

Canada’s fiancé’s aunt was also hurt in the attack. The bride-to-be was left with a black eye along with a broken nose and several teeth.