Some people outside Texas may have been less surprised by the recent report that the state’s respected senior senator, John Cornyn, may be facing a 2026 Republican primary challenge than by the fact that the threat is coming from Rep. Ronny Jackson.
After all, no one in the sensible center of the GOP seems immune these days from an attack from the right, and Cornyn has always faced some such flak. But Dr. Ronny?
Once the well-regarded White House physician, Jackson in just one term has morphed into so reflexively Trumpian a congressman that he seems just to this side of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the GOP’s right flank. He is also under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee on charges of improperly using campaign funds for a private club
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