You have to love Jasmine Crockett, she never fails to mince her words and commentary. This time, a fellow member of congress decided to step up and challenge her. To say it wasn;t the kind of interchange you’d expect in congress would be a mild statement.
Here’s how it went down.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, got into a heated exchange at a House hearing Tuesday that culminated with Mace challenging Crockett by asking whether she wanted to “take it outside.”
The war of words came during a discussion of civil rights and transgender rights, with Crockett calling for re-establishing a subcommittee on civil rights and criticizing Mace’s rhetoric about transgender people.
In case you’re not familiar with Mace, she’s the conservative who pushed for a bill to restrict capitol bathrooms to the person’s sex at birth, after the first transgendered person was elected to congress.
“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So [Mace] is gonna keep saying ‘trans, trans, trans, trans’ so that people will feel threatened, and child, listen —” Crockett said, as she slung a cultural colloquialism that wasn’t necessarily directed at Mace but to anyone who was listening.
Mace took it personal and jumped.
“I am no child, do not call me a child, I am no child,” Mace snapped back over Crockett who was still speaking and didn’t seem at all interested in yielding the floor to Mace. The exchange prompted committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., to unsuccessfully call for order.
“If you want to take it outside, we can do that,” Mace said, addressing Crockett with another cultural colloquialism, which clearly in Black – and most – cultures means “you want to fight.”
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., tried to defend Crockett, saying Mace had incited violence against her. However, after some discussion, Comer ruled that Mace’s remark had not been a call to violence, saying she could have been asking Crockett to go outside to “have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer.”
A spokesperson for Crockett did not respond to a request for comment, while Mace’s office pointed to her posts on X.
Mace posted about the incident upwards of a dozen times, acknowledging that she went “off” on Crockett but saying her call to go outside was not intended to mean she wanted to fight.
“Let me be clear: I wanted to take the conversation off the floor to have a more constructive conversation, not to fight. At no point was there any intention of causing harm to anyone,” she wrote in one post.
Crockett said on X that she had been threatened, and she called Mace “an attention seeking loser.”
“Last I checked, threatening members in a committee room doesn’t exactly reduce the cost of eggs,” she wrote.