Texas Senator John Cornhole Cornyn’s situation with a primary challenge from corrupt, Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton has gotten so dire that, when asked privately if he would retire and back still-undeclared MAGA Congressman Wesley Hunt, Cornyn he’d be willing to step down for the right candidate but didn’t think Hunt would be able to defeat Paxton, the Wall Street Journal reports in a story full of other pants-pissing about the increasingly grim 2026 primary.
Some Republicans estimate that Paxton could cost the party as much as $250 million in a general election in the very likely event he wins the primary against Cornyn, sucking away money better spent in Georgia and Michigan where they’re trying to go on offense to defeat Dem Jon Ossoff and take an open seat being vacated by retiring Dem Gary Peters. Cornyn would cost the party approximately $0 because he has a shit ton of his own cash. Again, Dems are still going to need to recruit Matthew McConaughey or Tim Duncan if they want to have a chance in this one.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate GOP campaign chief Tim Scott had asked convicted felon President Trump to endorse Cornyn before Pax had launched his campaign in April, but the fat fuck refused, saying simply “They’re both friends of mine. I’ll make a determination at the right time.”
Last month NOTUS reported that Trump will endorse both if he endorses at all.
The Journal also reports that Cornyn intends to campaign on Paxton’s white collar crime spree – and holy shit he is so fucked if this is his winning strategy, lol – with the paper mentioning a whole new angle of corruption in Pax and his shitty country musician wife’s recent property acquisitions.
Early in May the Washington Post reported that some Trump minion at the US Federal Housing Finance Agency had sent the DOJ a criminal referral against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of having “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms,” specifically that she named a house in Norfolk, Virginia as her primary residence to get better terms.
Yes, that paragraph seems out of place in a story about Ken Paxton. But take a guess what the Journal found by looking into documents about the homes Pax and his wife have been buying up. “Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal indicate that Paxton and his wife represented on mortgage documents that at least one of the homes they own in the state capital of Austin was their principal residence, even as they lived, voted and held office in the Dallas area from a house on which they receive a homestead tax break. Misrepresenting the Austin property as a principal residence, which typically results in a lower interest rate on the loan, could constitute mortgage fraud, real-estate experts said,” they write on what could, in theory, be a potent line of attack for Cornyn given that it’s the same exact thing James is under investigation for.
But Cornyn’s probably going to need more than that in a race that one strategist said panic is starting to set in among Republicans who are beginning to compare Paxton to Roy Moore.