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Maybe it’s time for South Dakotans to reconsider the candidate they’re sending to the Senate...
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State of the Union: The endorsement could swing the primary away from the Lone Star State’s longtime senator. The post Trump Backs Paxton in Texas Senate Runoff against Cornyn appeared first on The American Conservative .
President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday in the GOP Senate primary against longtime Senator John Cornyn. The endorsement, published on Truth Social, comes one week before a runoff election between the two candidates. “John Cornyn is a good man,” Trump wrote, “and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough.” The president had withheld his endorsement in the race, reportedly to pressure Cornyn to support eliminating the filibuster to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. In his endorsement, Trump stated that Paxton was “a Strong Supporter of TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER” and the SAVE Act. Cornyn, writing in a New York Post op-ed last week,…Open
Ken Paxton fights for Texas and for conservative values, while John Cornyn has spent too long in the D.C. Swamp.
The pair follow Trump in endorsing Hern's bid. Notably, Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Okla., will appoint a replacement to complete Mullin's term.
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