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GOP’s Cornyn, stuck between 2 Texas electorates, looks to fight his way out 

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24.06.2025

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is doing two things vulnerable incumbent senators are not supposed to do eight months before their primary elections: He’s acknowledging that he’s in serious trouble ahead of next March’s contest and he’s making it personal. Very personal.

“I refuse to let someone of his character—or lack of character—represent Texas in the Senate,” Cornyn told The Wall Street Journal. “I consider this to be drawing a line in the sand.”

The character in question is that of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, one of the most far-out figures of the MAGA-era GOP. He has generated a blizzard of criminal and civil accusations throughout his career, but has endeared himself to members of the Republican base with his pugnacious audacity in attacking establishment Republicans such as Cornyn, as well as Democrats, including leading the failed effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

With the end of the most recent criminal investigation into allegations of personal corruption, Paxton was set to challenge Cornyn, who is seeking a fourth term.

So why at the outset of this blossoming horse apple of a contest, is the Republican Party of Texas suing to close its own primary? Party bosses tried and failed to get the Republican-controlled state Legislature to change the law, so they are now claiming the open primary violates their........

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