Adam Harris

And promising candidates from Beto O'Rourke to Wendy Davis have tried and failed to change that fact.

But people think Crockett or Talrico really could.

And it's making them wonder.

Is this the year for a Democrat in Texas?

This is Radio Atlantic, and I'm Adam Harris, sitting in for Hannah Rosen.

Atlantic staff writer Elaine Godfrey has been covering this Texas race, and also following Representative Crockett.

She profiled her last year.

And then, while Elaine was at a Crockett campaign event this week, this happened.

Elaine, welcome to the show.

So the Texas Senate primary.

Why has this race captured the national media attention?

What's going on in the Texas primary?

Yeah.

And so so you've been watching this for a while.

You go to Texas to cover the race.

And then what happens?

And you recorded this whole interaction.

And it's a good thing that you did record it because after you published the article, the campaign denied it.

They said that you, they didn't actually say that.

And for the record, have you been sued for defamation successfully?