President Donald Trump finished off the political career of four-term Texas Republican US Senator John Cornyn, the latest purge in a score-settling revenge tour that burnishes his grip on the GOP base even as it threatens to undercut his near-term agenda for months to come.
Cornyn’s primary loss Tuesday to Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general Trump endorsed, suddenly puts the Lone Star State’s Senate contest in reach for Democrats. It turns a “likely Republican” seat “into a fully competitive race,” the non-partisan Cook Political Report said, and will force the GOP to spend big in the ...
