The Texas primary pitted a PBP incumbent who has accepted his subservience to Trump and MAGA against a true MAGA believer with a boatload of personal baggage. The electorate is split evenly. The Democrats are hoping for a Paxton victory. Trump says he will endorse one of the two candidates and will demand that the other leave the race. What does it mean?
We’re about to find out how much MAGA is a coherent ideological movement, as opposed to a pure extension of Trump’s interests and will. If Paxton wins, we will also find out how popular that agenda is in Texas in November.