‘The Find Out Phase’: Jasmine Crockett Taunts GOP ‘Clown Show’ Amid Speaker Drama

On Jan 3, 2025

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said ahead of Friday’s precarious House speaker vote that Republicans are entering the “‘find out’ phase” after claiming they’d received a sweeping “mandate” from voters in November.

Crockett said Democrats don’t plan to help them sort it out.

“Listen, they have gone around, they have talked about how there is a mandate, and that this country issued a mandate for the Republicans to run something,” she told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Thursday. “Well, the country about to find out. We are in the ‘find out’ phase.”

“So go ahead and run whatever y’all gonna run,” she continued, “but listen, if it’s all about y’all, if you don’t believe in bipartisanship and you have a ‘Trump trifecta,’ then y’all work this out amongst yourselves. We’re going to sit on the sidelines and eat our popcorn.”

In a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, Crockett wrote: “Welcome to the 119th! America, y’all seriously voted for this clown show to continue?!”

https://t.co/cR3WymIRGq

— Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) January 3, 2025

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Welcome to the 119th! America, y’all seriously voted for this clown show to continue?! 🤯

Tune in for all the drama on CSPAN. Remember, 2 years ago things got physical on the R side as they tried to get a speaker. Who knows what will happen this time.

If 2 people, Massie plus… https://t.co/cR3WymIRGq

— Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) January 3, 2025

She offered a flashback to this time in 2023, when it took former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) 15 rounds to get the speaker’s gavel. He was ousted from his leadership post later that year, leading to a three-week civil war among Republicans until they ultimately settled on Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to replace him.

Johnson now faces his own uphill battle to retain the position when the new Congress convenes on Friday. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has said he won’t vote for Johnson, and with a razor-thin GOP majority in the House, any such defection puts Johnson’s speakership on the brink.

“If 2 people, Massie plus one, don’t vote for Johnson, we won’t have a speaker & won’t swear in, until we do,” Crockett posted.

“If Dems had the house, we’d have speaker Jeffries in the first round!” she added, referring to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

President-elect Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Johnson. Congress can’t certify the results of the 2024 election until a speaker is elected.