Texas is more than a thousand miles away from Capitol Hill, but the race between Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the state’s Senate seat Wednesday centered on a D.C.-centric topic: the filibuster.
The fight is the latest chapter in both men’s quest to earn an ever-coveted endorsement from President Donald Trump, who has yet to put his thumb on the scale for the May 26 runoff between the two Republicans.
Republicans in the Senate have struggled over whether to unite behind a talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, the SAVE America Act, with Senate Republican leadership saying there aren’t enough votes to support one. But attention from the online MAGA world and a push from Trump himself has forced the issue into some battleground races, including in Texas.
