On Tuesday, voters in Texas returned to the polls to settle the runoff primary elections. While there were several races I was planning on paying attention to, Rep. Tony Gonzales is already gone, making it a bit less interesting for me.
But Attorney General Ken Paxton was still challenging Sen. John Cornyn for his seat, and since Cornyn sold out gun owners to bend the knee to Joe Biden’s anti-gun jihad, this was always going to be a big one.
And Cornyn was the incumbent. They always have an advantage, and Paxton had some baggage that might have worked against it.
Of course, if incumbency helped Cornyn or the baggage hurt Paxton, I’d hate to see what these results would have looked like without it.
It’s official. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for Senate after defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s runoff election.
The runoff kicked off after no Republican candidate managed to win over 50 percent of the vote in March’s election.
Both campaigns spent the final full day before the runoff flooding the airwaves with their appeals to voters instead of holding public events, according to The Associated Press.
The race appeared to have been decided on May 19 after President Donald Trump endorsed the attorney general, giving him a late boost before the runoff. Up to that point, the president had given no indication as to which candidate he might support. But in a post on Truth Social, Trump explained that Cornyn had been slow to sign on to the president’s agenda, which cost him the endorsement.
That’s not a win. That’s eviscerating the opposition and stomping on their entrails.
Now, with that said, what does this mean for the Second Amendment going forward? Cornyn sold us out, and Paxton’s been pretty pro-gun during his time in office, so that’s good news for our side of things.
Cornyn has, in fact, been slow to sign on with Trump’s agenda, so that certainly hurt him a great deal, especially in Texas, where the GOP is very pro-Trump.
How much did Cornyn’s decision to work with Biden on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act play into that, though? It’s hard to say, but only because there have been so many other places Cornyn has crossed Republican voters that plenty of people had a reason to take him out. His work on the BSCA sure as hell didn’t help.
What we do know, though, is that if Paxton can win in the general election against James Talarico, then we’re going to have a much better ally in the Senate than we had with Cornyn.
Currently, Paxton is leading in the polls against Talarico, who is about as lefty as they come, even if he’s a bit more soft-spoken about it than many of his peers. However, that lead is only five points with nine percent of the voters currently undecided. I personally think that Talarico hit his ceiling already on support and Paxton can still garner more of the undecideds, but that’s more of a gut reaction based on what I typically see out of Texas.
Either way, Cornyn will soon be out, and I can’t find a tear in my eye about it.
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