I'll believe TX will elect a Dem to the Senate when I see it, but Paxton instead of Cornyn seems like just such a huge mistake, and there's no question Trump has to own it - if he'd supported Cornyn, the latter would almost certainly have gotten re-upped. It's one thing to be far right, it's another to be so egregiously corrupt and incompetent as Paxton has been (I can't think of the last time someone's own party turned on an elected official like the ones in the Texas Senate did for his impeachment).
I'll believe TX will elect a Dem to the Senate when I see it, but Paxton instead of Cornyn seems like just such a huge mistake, and there's no question Trump has to own it - if he'd supported Cornyn, the latter would almost certainly have gotten re-upped. It's one thing to be far right, it's another to be so egregiously corrupt and incompetent as Paxton has been (I can't think of the last time someone's own party turned on an elected official like the ones in the Texas Senate did for his impeachment).