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The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a Washington-based advocacy group known for supporting left-leaning populists, is endorsing James Talarico over Jasmine Crockett in the competitive and feisty Democratic Senate primary in Texas.
PCCC co-founder Adam Green, who boasts “hundreds of thousands of members,” told NBC News that his group will immediately start raising money for Talarico and provide an on-the-ground staff presence in Texas to boost him in the March 3 primary.
“James Talarico has risen to national prominence by effortlessly grounding his candidacy in bold economic populism, which is an important marker for how other Democrats should campaign,” Green said. “There’s a cogency to his worldview, where everything has a pro-worker, corporate accountability, increased quality-of-life center of gravity.”
Crockett, by contrast, has not impressed the group the same way, Green said.
“We do a lot of work with Congress, and Jasmine Crockett is an effective partisan jouster on flash points of the day but has never seriously shown up for an economic fight,” he said. “Are we just an anti-Trump party, or do we build a durable supermajority by clearly advancing a vision?”
He said they “thought it was important to intervene and reframe the race” away from the left-versus-moderate dichotomy that casts Crockett as the liberal option. Talarico “is a vibrant economic populist fighting for workers,” Green said. “There’s nothing mushy or moderate about that.”
Ahead of the endorsement, the group polled its roughly 10,000 Texas members on the primary and respondents favored Talarico 2-to-1 over Crockett, a spokesperson said.
Green added that he sees Talarico as more “electable,” criticizing Crockett for having told CNN it’s “not our goal” to convert Trump voters to win the general election. “No economic populist would ever say that,” Green said. “We are trying to appeal to independent and Republican voters.”
Talarico’s campaign had no immediate comment.
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