How Trump’s endorsement of scandal-plagued Ken Paxton is shaping the context.
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James Talarico better don a flak jacket. With Republican voters in Texas having nominated scandal-plagued Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate, GOP strategists who make their living in Lone Star State politics say carpet-bombing the upstart Democratic standard-bearer with negative advertising is the surest way to prevent a massive upset in midterm elections this fall.
David M. Drucker is a senior writer at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was a senior correspondent for the Washington Examiner. When Drucker is not covering American politics for The Dispatch, he enjoys hanging out with his two boys and listening to his wife's excellent taste in music.
