{"id":2449475,"date":"2025-06-19T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karoline-leavitt-wants-jasmine-crockett-to-stay-the-democrats-star\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:28:17","slug":"karoline-leavitt-wants-jasmine-crockett-to-stay-the-democrats-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karoline-leavitt-wants-jasmine-crockett-to-stay-the-democrats-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt wants Jasmine Crockett to stay the Democrats&#8217; &#8216;star&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkaroline-leavitt-wants-jasmine-crockett-to-stay-the-democrats-star%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2449475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In response to comments made by congresswoman Jasmine Crockett regarding supporters of former President Donald trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt expressed strong disapproval during a press briefing. Crockett suggested that voting for trump reflects a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health crisis<\/a>,stating,&#8221;everyone,no matter how you affiliate yourself,should be against Trump.&#8221; Leavitt criticized this statement as &#8220;incredibly derogatory&#8221; to the nearly 80 million Americans who voted for Trump, arguing that they are <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >hardworking patriots comprising diverse groups<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/75-of-800-billion-ppp-program-didnt-reach-employees\/\" title=\"75% of 0 Billion PPP Program Didn&#039;t Reach Employees\">including business owners<\/a>, teachers, and law enforcement. She encouraged Crockett to attend a Trump rally to understand the movement better. Crockett also voiced concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-normalize-political-violence-that-torched-pa-govs-mansion\/\" title=\"Dems Normalize Political Violence That Torched PA Gov&#039;s Mansion\">political violence affecting<\/a> the safety of lawmakers, especially in light of recent shootings in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Leavitt: Jasmine Crockett&rsquo;s comments on Trump supporters were &lsquo;incredibly derogatory&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2152731\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karoline-leavitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Karoline Leavitt\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a> piled on Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jasmine-crockett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Karoline Leavitt\">Jasmine Crockett<\/a> (D-TX) Thursday for recent comments the latter made about supporters of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett, during an appearance on Katie Couric&rsquo;s podcast, suggested that people who voted for Trump in the last election are an illustration of the mental health crisis, &ldquo;because everyone, no matter how you affiliate yourself, should be against Trump. Period.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3447668\/trump-two-weeks-decide-whether-strike-iran\/\">Trump to give himself two weeks to decide whether to strike Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3447309\/vance-met-left-wing-rage-after-joining-bluesky\/\">Vance met with left-wing rage after joining Bluesky&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3447494\/watch-live-karoline-leavitt-press-briefing-trump-strike-iran\/\">WATCH LIVE: Karoline Leavitt holds press briefing as Trump weighs strike on Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Leavitt fielded one question during Thursday&rsquo;s press briefing about Crocket&rsquo;s comments, given her status as a &ldquo;rising star&rdquo; on the Democratic side of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She is a rising star. It&rsquo;s quite something to behold, actually. I hope that she continues to be a rising star for the Republican Party, at least,&rdquo; Leavitt said. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s incredibly derogatory to accuse nearly 80 million Americans of mental illness. The last time I checked, Jasmine Crockett couldn&rsquo;t dream of winning such a majority of the public as President Trump did.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The America First movement, which President Trump has built, is filled of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-teases-2024-run-with-campaign-ad-style-video-after-fbi-raid\/\" title=\"Trump Teases 2024 Run With Campaign Ad-Style Video After FBI Raid\">hard-working patriots<\/a>, the forgotten men and women, business owners, law enforcement officers, nurses and teachers, and Middle America, as we all know,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;You know, from where you all grew up, outside of this beltway, that&rsquo;s who makes up this president&rsquo;s movement, and Jasmine Crockett should go to a Trump rally sometime, and she can see it for herself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jasmine-crockett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crockett<\/a> earlier Thursday accused Republican lawmakers of being afraid of &ldquo;MAGA&rdquo; supporters amid ongoing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/political-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political violence<\/a>&nbsp;during an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3447528\/jasmine-crockett-claims-republicans-are-worried-about-maga-amid-political-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ABC News&rsquo;s&nbsp;The View\">ABC News&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The View<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett said she does not feel safe &ldquo;at all&rdquo; in the wake of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/minnesota\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minnesota<\/a>&nbsp;shootings that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3442053\/two-minnesota-lawmakers-shot-by-suspect-impersonating-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">&nbsp;killed former&nbsp;state&nbsp;House speaker Melissa Hortman&nbsp;<\/a>and her husband after wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3447668\/trump-two-weeks-decide-whether-strike-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP SETS TWO-WEEK DEADLINE TO MAKE IRAN WAR DECISION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Thursday&rsquo;s briefing in full below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3MYm2XzvrM4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, June 19, 2025\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MYm2XzvrM4?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2152731\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2152731\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leavitt: Crockett&#8217;s remarks on Trump supporters were &#8216;highly offensive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2449476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP230317466924071.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3685,34125,32435,32171,35708],"class_list":["post-2449475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-jasmine-crockett","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-political-commentary","tag-political-leadership"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP230317466924071.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449479,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449475\/revisions\/2449479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}