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How Trump Helped Put a Texas Senate Seat In Play
Cornyn’s allies continued the persuasion campaign after the primary, which advanced the senator and Paxton to a runoff. According to a White House aide, Thune spent hours on the phone with Trump after the primary, trying in vain to persuade him to endorse Cornyn in the runoff. For more than two months, Trump resisted choosing between them. By May, however, Paxton had pulled decisively ahead. Trump’s own pollsters concluded that even his endorsement was unlikely to save Cornyn. Trump finally endorsed Paxton a week before the runoff, and took credit for the victory.
Since then, Paxton has struggled to raise funds necessary for a competitive Senate race in one of the nation’s largest states. Neither the Senate Leadership Fund, aligned with Thune, nor MAGA Inc., run by LaCivita, was eager to fill the gap. Despite its enormous cash reserves, by late August, MAGA Inc. had spent just $800,000 overall; its most conspicuous intervention was to help Darline Graham win the Republican nomination to succeed her late brother, Lindsey Graham, in South Carolina.
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