Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said podcasters and comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang were saying "the quiet part out loud" in their criticism of her Senate bid, suggesting the statement was about her race.

"I really do think that the host said the quiet part out loud, which basically was: If a White man couldn’t do it, then why would a Black woman even have the audacity to think that she could?" Crockett said in an interview in January, according to the Washington Post. "I don’t know however many White men, and they’ve all lost. The only thing we know for sure is that a White man can lose."

Rogers and Yang, hosts of the "Las Culturistas" podcast, faced backlash after Rogers urged listeners not to donate to Crockett’s campaign, criticizing politicians who ‘make things about themselves.’ Yang agreed with Rogers, but both apologized days later for the remarks.

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The "Las Culturistas" podcast, which is produced by iHeartMedia and the Big Money Players Network, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Crockett has argued that she will win her Senate election by reaching people who don't always vote and appealing to minority voting blocs.

"I get that I’m not a traditional candidate. And that’s exactly why I’m going to win," Crockett said, according to the Post.

The progressive lawmaker has compared her campaign to that of Beto O'Rourke's Senate bid in 2018, which he lost by 3 percentage points.

O'Rourke told the Post that there was no bad outcome for the primary. Crockett is running against state Rep. James Talarico.

"I don’t know that I buy the conventional wisdom about either of them," O'Rourke said.

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Rogers cited O'Rourke's campaign as a reason why Crockett would not win during the discussion on their podcast. 

"She's not going to win a Senate seat in Texas, you guys," Rogers said. "Like, if Beto O’Rourke couldn't do it, Jasmine Crockett is not going to do it."

Crockett dismissed critics who think she can't win in Texas.

"My theory of the case is this: If you believe we’re going to lose anyway then what difference does it make if it’s me or anybody else?" Crockett said, according to the Post. "If you think it’s a losing cause, then who cares? But at least you could say we tried something new, and we learned something from this experience."

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Crockett also addressed the criticism from Rogers and Yang on Tuesday during a conversation with former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison on his "At Our Table" podcast. 

"Yeah, people are afraid. And it’s not afraid of me losing. They are afraid of me winning, actually. That’s what I hear. What disappoints me is when I hear things from the left, I expect to hear certain things from the right, right? So that’s fine," Crockett responded.

Texas has not elected a Democratic senator since 1988, when Lloyd Bentsen won re-election.

Vice President JD Vance stops in Minnesota Thursday, which is ground zero in the heated battle over President Donald Trump's aggressive illegal immigration crackdown.

A White House official told Fox News that Vance will use his trip to "highlight the Administration’s commitment to restoring law and order in Minneapolis."

The official said that Vance will meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during his stop, "to reinforce the White House’s unwavering support for federal immigration officials." He also plans to hold a roundtable discussion with community leaders and hold a news conference.

Apparently not on Vance's itinerary: any olive branches to top Democratic officials and protesters who are fiercely opposed to the aggressive efforts by the massive deployment to Minnesota of masked ICE agents, who have raided homes as they search people for proof of citizenship.

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"I'm headed from here to Minneapolis, where we're going to talk with some of our ICE agents, talk with local officials about how we can turn down the chaos. And my simple piece of advice to them is going to be, look, if you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement and accept that we have to have a border in this country. It's not that hard," Vance said a couple of hours ahead of his arrival in Minnesota.

But he added, "Certainly one of my goals is to calm the tensions, to talk to people, to try to understand what we can do better."

The vice president's trip to Minneapolis comes two weeks after the fatal shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Good, a Minnesota woman and mother of three, went viral, sparking protests and a national debate over the agency's efforts to carry out Trump's push for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented migrants.

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The White House says Vance "will point out how Minneapolis’s sanctuary city policies have degraded public safety and endangered ICE officers. He will also celebrate the essential work ICE agents have done to take dangerous, criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets."

Good's death and the continued ICE raids have fueled demonstrations, with protesters facing off against federal immigration officers.

Hours ahead of Vance's arrival, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino said at a news conference in Minneapolis that "our agents are being violently assaulted by agitators and anarchists."

Hundreds of military police troops are on alert for deployment to Minneapolis after Trump last week warned that if Minnesota's political leaders don't stop what he argued were "professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other prominent Democrats, including state Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, were served Tuesday with subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice over an alleged conspiracy to obstruct or impede federal law enforcement during ongoing ICE operations.

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"Minnesota will not be intimidated into silence and neither will I," Walz fired back in a statement.

And he charged, "Families are scared. Kids are afraid to go to school. Small businesses are hurting. A mother is dead, and the people responsible have yet to be held accountable. That’s where the energy of the federal government should be directed: toward restoring trust, accountability, and real law and order, not political retaliation."

Earlier Thursday, before his arrival in Minnesota, Vance asked, "What is wrong with Minneapolis authorities? They so hate the idea of enforcing immigration laws that they're telling their people not to get sex offenders out of their community. It's crazy. And it's why we see so much chaos in Minneapolis, but not elsewhere."

Vance has been one of the most vocal members of the Trump administration defending ICE and targeting the backlash over the federal crackdown, and his trip to Minnesota is another sign that the White House isn't backing down on its mass deportation push.

After Good's death, Vance charged that Democrats were "rallying the mob against legitimate law enforcement operations."

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At a White House news briefing earlier this month, the vice president claimed that Good had been "brainwashed" and argued that the Minneapolis mother of three had links to a "broader, left-wing network."

Vance's trip comes amid flagging support for ICE in a slew of recent national polls.

The most recent survey, a New York Times/Siena Poll conducted Jan. 12–17 and released on Thursday, showed a slight majority approving of the job Trump's doing on the southern border with Mexico and his administration's deportation efforts.

But the president's overall approval on the issue of immigration was underwater in the poll, with nearly two-thirds disapproving of how ICE was handling their job and 61% saying ICE's tactics had gone too far.

Vance's stop in Minnesota also comes amid the sprawling federal fraud investigation that has led to charges against dozens of people in the state's large Somali-American community. The fraud scandal has put Democratic leaders in the state on the defensive and convinced Walz to end his bid this year for re-election to a third term as governor.

The Trump administration is keen to highlight the scandal, and Vance is expected during this stop to spotlight the recent creation of a new Justice Department assistant attorney general position "to crack down on widescale fraud and abuse of taxpayer-funded programs as seen in Minnesota and several other states."

The vice president was previously in Minnesota in September, in the wake of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis-area Catholic Church.

Vance traveled earlier on Thursday in his home state of Ohio, stopping by an industrial shipping facility in Toledo to deliver remarks about the administration's efforts to lower prices.