You’ve seen the kind of stunning, kinda not stunning news that Donald Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton for the GOP senate primary runoff in Texas. Two months ago Trump was on the cusp of endorsing Cornyn, apparently already had the statement written out. Paxton rolled Trump and rolled him hard. The most obvious explanation for this is that the polling is showing that Cornyn is going to lose and Trump absolutely never wants to back a loser. It may be that. But I see something a little different. Trump has been taking out a lot of not-100% MAGA members of Congress. Bill Cassidy is the latest example of that. There were those state senate holdouts in Indiana. It’s happened again and again. On that front he feels like he’s on a roll. But it’s not just that.
