Cornyn, Paxton, Hunt battle for Texas GOP senate nominee
www.texastribune.org
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt are competing to be the Republican nominee come November, with stakes that will be felt across Texas and in Washington.
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    Cornyn, who has never lost a race in his over 35 years as an elected official, helped orchestrate the era of Republican dominance in Texas, navigating the transition from the Bush era to the Trump era as other old guard party members, in and out of the state, have been forced out. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002, he is one of the longest-serving senators in Texas history, and has served in the upper echelon of Republican leadership in Washington.

    But on Tuesday, Cornyn will face the most serious threat to his career thus far in the form of Paxton, a MAGA movement darling who has weathered a series of ethics scandals to emerge as one of the best-recognized leaders of the party’s hard right. A hardcore Trump ally who led the legal effort to overturn the 2020 election, Paxton has made his bones suing Democratic presidents and making the attorney general’s office a headquarters of the conservative legal movement, putting Texas on the frontlines of national culture war battles over abortion, religion and LGBTQ+ rights.

    What a shithole.