Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) on Saturday lambasted his opponent Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) “lip service” to MAGA, his cowardice in refusing to overturn the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, and his support of several of President Donald Trump’s enemies.
Paxton’s stern words for career politician Cornyn occurred during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday with Breitbart’s D.C. Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle — Paxton’s first big interview since the Texas GOP Primary race on Tuesday. Paxton and Cornyn are headed for a heated runoff election so one of them can ultimately face the blasphemous, abortion-loving Democrat nominee James Talarico.
President Trump has yet to endorse in the race, demanding first that the Senate pass the SAVE America Act, a massive piece of legislation aimed at cracking down on voter fraud which is currently stalled because of the 60-vote threshold required by the filibuster.
In what Boyle called a “master chess move,” Paxton said he would drop out of the Texas Senate Republican primary runoff if the Senate lifts the filibuster to pass the voter ID bill. Paxton did so after Trump announced on Wednesday that he would soon make an endorsement between the two and would expect the unchosen candidate to bow out. Paxton suggested he would not bow out if he did not receive the coveted endorsement, but then he set the condition of nuking the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act as his price.
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