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Jasmine Crockett: “My mom was not gonna necessarily, they weren't gonna…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 03:33

And I think because I was almost 16, it was like, all right, whatever, I'm almost out the house myself, you know. So they divorced and the concern was that My mom was not gonna necessarily, they weren't gonna necessarily be able to afford for me to go to my school anymore. And so at that point in time, my mom actually applied me to a school that cost a lot more money, because that's what makes sense. But she applied me to a country day school and they gave me a scholarship. And so while that school costs a lot of money, I was on a scholarship, able to attend school there. (03:33–03:54)

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Asserts that [Jasmine Crockett's mother] applied her to a more expensive school, which gave her a scholarship.

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