Trump Doing It Again in Texas

Donald Trump, who has a history -- once memorably summed up in "Donald Trump Is a Loser", by John Sununu -- of screwing his own party out of Senate seats, is up to his old M.O. in Texas:

As a result of Trump's reluctance to endorse, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas has been drawn into a nasty, and expensive, primary challenge with MAGA fave Ken Paxton. In September last year, Team Cornyn rolled out an ad campaign coloring his scandal-prone fellow Republican as crooked. Months later, and Trump has not endorsed Cornyn or the Texas attorney general who is hoping to oust him.

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If Paxton were the Republican nominee, it would take a lot more money than usual to keep that Texas Senate seat. People involved in the race estimate it would cost about $100 million extra, because Paxton would need heavy advertising to stay competitive.

Internal polling, the Post reported, showed Cornyn leading Paxton. Paxton, crucially, is also lagging behind Texas state Rep. James Talarico and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett on the Democratic side. Talarico or Crockett winning a general election would be a costly misstep caused by Trump's inaction, if it were to come to fruition. [links omitted, bold added]

As the article indicates, Trump is also screwing over a Senator in neighboring Louisiana, although the state party there changed an election law to help the "man" who violated his Hippocratic Oath en route to confirming Bobby Kennedy as HHS Secretary.

The piece leads with the claim, "Republicans secretly fuming with Trump as midterm disaster looms."

Why not all come out in the open about this now, before it's too late to save your own skins and perhaps your party? The people, not Trump and his cronies, are your bosses, after all.

It is a shame both parties can't lose this year. The Dems are awful, but if I can't see anyone in his party getting control of Trump, I guess I'll have to look to the Democrats this November.

-- CAV