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Callum Jones

Trump’s grip on the Republican party has never been tighter. Will Democrats take Texas from its grasp?

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Donald Trump speaks in front of the US flag to the press as he departs the White House on 12 May in Washington DC. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Donald Trump gave it a minute.

At 9.01pm it was confirmed that the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton – a hardliner backed by the US president – had triumphed over the incumbent John Cornyn in the state’s Republican primary runoff for the US Senate. By 9.02pm, Trump had started celebrating on social media.

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