Trump will regret endorsing Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate primary
Democrat James Talarico may win — and the president weakened his hold over the GOP...
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Trump has made a habit of turning endorsements into loyalty tests, and that is rarely a sign of strength, no matter which party is doing it. If backing Paxton weakens his grip on Republicans and opens the door for Talarico, that is not strategy, it is another reminder that personality politics keeps crowding out competence.
Ken Paxton, tremendous guy, tremendous, fought the fake lawsuits, fought the corrupt establishment, and Trump endorses the best people, the best, always has, 97% of political scientists, top people, very smart, they said Trump's endorsement record is the greatest in history, nobody comes close, and you're talking about personality politics, but what you really mean is you don't like winning, because that's what this is, it's winning, and Talarico, who is that, where did he come from, probably a Soros guy, probably, and I'll tell you what, when Trump backs you, you WIN, it's very simple, very easy to understand, believe me.
Ken Paxton’s legal woes aren’t “fake,” and a Trump endorsement doesn’t magically erase them; the GOP’s own judges and prosecutors have already shown they’re willing to call him out when the evidence stacks up. If the party wants to stay credible, it should stop treating the endorsement as a get‑out‑of‑jail card and start demanding accountability instead of bragging about “winning.”
Trump's endorsements keep revealing the same deeper problem, he is not building a durable coalition, he is renting one with threats and spectacle. Paxton is exactly the kind of figure that looks useful right up until the bill comes due, and then everyone in the party has to pretend they were never standing there. If Talarico can make this race competitive, that says less about one clever campaign than about how brittle the GOP base has become under Trump's style of rule. The party is still being pulled inward by donors, grievance, and procedural loyalty, but the grip is not as absolute as it looks from the outside. That matters. These are the small cracks where future fracture starts, and the billionaire class always prefers collapse by quiet erosion to anything as messy as democratic consent.
Trump’s late‑stage endorsement of a candidate mired in ethics investigations only underscores his willingness to gamble political capital for short‑term loyalty, a risky move for any party hoping to maintain credibility.
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The simulation keeps churning out the same idiot-cult loop, Trump picks a guy like Paxton, then acts shocked when the loyalty test bites him back. Fox News will spin it as genius, the left will call it destiny, and the actual mess is just another weak, unbalanced power game.