Former SNL Star Says Supporting Jasmine Crockett Is a 'Waste'
Podcast hosts urged listeners not to donate to Crockett’s Senate ambitions and predicted she would not win statewide in Texas.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYIJR is a partisan digital news outlet, so its institutional credibility is lower than that of major national outlets. This article names an author and attributes its account to Fox News, but offers little indication of independent reporting or broader sourcing.
- Source type — A national news publisher, though a partisan digital outlet rather than a major newspaper or wire service.
- Author attribution — The article names an author and attributes its account of the podcast remarks to Fox News.
- Editorial standards — The short, quote-driven piece provides limited evidence of independent verification or editorial process.
The article includes direct quotations and attributes the discussion to a podcast episode, but relies on a narrow set of speakers and gives no response from Crockett or additional context about her campaign.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article reports the hosts’ views and quotes them at length, but provides no response from Crockett, campaign context, or countervailing assessment of her prospects.
- Source diversity — The piece centers on two podcast hosts and does not include other viewpoints.
- Counterarguments presented — No response from Crockett or a supporter is included.
- Opinion vs reporting — The article reports others’ opinions rather than making an explicit argument in its own voice.
The article is written as a report, but its headline and focus foreground criticism of a Democratic candidate and include a separate critical passage about a Democratic governor. The selection gives little space to other perspectives.
- Framing — The piece centers negative predictions about Crockett’s Senate prospects and later includes criticism of Newsom.
- Headline — The headline spotlights the claim that supporting Crockett is a waste.
- Source selection — The account focuses on two podcast hosts’ critical remarks, without a response from Crockett.
A podcast discussion featured calls not to donate to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign, with the hosts predicting she would not win statewide in Texas.
The article reports that Matt Rogers urged listeners not to send money to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, arguing that her public persona would not translate into a statewide win. Bowen Yang agreed, and Rogers compared Crockett’s prospects with Beto O’Rourke’s unsuccessful Senate bid.
The discussion also revisited Yang’s regret about supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016. Later, Rogers criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s national prospects, and Yang joined in with a joke about Newsom.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Crockett in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Crockett’s record.
People in this story
SWIPE →Texas representative and prospective Senate candidate discussed by podcast hosts
Former Senate candidate cited as an example of Rogers’s past political donations
Former Texas Senate candidate cited as a comparison
Part of a bigger story
13 OUTLETSPodcast hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang urged listeners not to donate to Jasmine Crockett’s Texas Senate campaign, with Rogers questioning her chances of winning. Left-leaning outlets emphasize backlash and apologies, and challenge the hosts’ assessment of Crockett’s prospects. Center outlets cover different aspects, including Rogers’s apology, Crockett’s campaign activity and scrutiny of her finances. Right-leaning outlets foreground the hosts’ prediction that Crockett is unlikely to win and their warning against donations; one article also links campaign funding to primary conflict.
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