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When President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued his ukase that Texas Republicans should vote for Ken Paxton over John Cornyn in the contentious Senate primary runoff, a discerning ear in Washington might have heard two simultaneous sounds reverberating across the city. The first was a cry of anguish from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the second a triumphant cheer from their counterparts at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
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