Overview
- Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic reports she was told to leave a Lubbock Senate campaign event after a staffer identified her as a “white girl with a hat and notepad” and a “top‑notch hater.”
- Godfrey writes that four guards, at least one armed, escorted her out of the venue and waited with her at the edge of a nearby highway as she ordered a car.
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett told CBS News there is no evidence any reporter was ejected and suggested the journalist had previously lost a defamation suit, a claim Godfrey says is false.
- The episode follows prior friction tied to Godfrey’s July profile of Crockett, which the congresswoman objected to and tried to halt.
- Commentators including Chris Cillizza, Zaid Jilani, and Tommy Vietor criticized the reported removal, with the Democratic Senate primary set for March 3.