If everything is bigger in Texas, President Donald Trump’s decision Friday to not endorse two high-profile Republicans on Friday ahead of Tuesday’s Senate primary vote amounted to a Lone Star-sized cliffhanger as the midterm elections heat up.
On one hand, the campaigner-in-chief opted against endorsing the more conservative candidate — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — amid warnings that a general election loss of a red seat could follow. But on the other, Trump also chose against endorsing Sen. John Cornyn, one of the chamber’s remaining deal-makers and winner of a number of statewide races. Earlier in his career, Cornyn also won races for a Texas Supreme Court seat and for state attorney general.
“Pretty much, yeah,” Trump replied when asked by a reporter at the Port of Corpus Christi if he had decided who he would endorse.
