Trump flexes endorsement power for Ken Paxton after ousting Cassidy, targeting Massie

Trump flexes endorsement power for Ken Paxton after ousting Cassidy, targeting Massie

President donald trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Texas’ republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday, throwing his weight behind a hard-line ally and dealing a significant blow to incumbent Sen. John Cornyn one week earlier than the state’s Election Day. The endorsement provides Paxton a significant increase in one of many GOP’s most carefully…

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Trump got his revenge against Cassidy, but will Cassidy get his revenge against Trump?

Trump got his revenge against Cassidy, but will Cassidy get his revenge against Trump?

After Donald Trump left the White House in early 2021, many outstanding figures in Republican politics assumed that he’d successfully set his political profession on hearth. By any sane measure, this was an comprehensible assumption: The then-forming president had simply plotted to grab illegitimate energy and bore accountability for an insurrectionist assault on his personal…

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