When Angela Paxton spoke to a room of Republican women in Texas in September, she named her speech “The Elephant in the Room.” The elephant, of course, was her divorce from Ken Paxton, Texas’ attorney general and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. Last summer, she filed for divorce on what she called “biblical grounds,” alleging adultery; Ken Paxton has denied the allegation.
Then came the line that should trouble every woman, Republican or Democrat: “It’s not the people, it’s the seat.” Republican women, she said, should keep the seat “in the family, even if we’re mad at them.”
