“If It’s Me or if It’s Ken, I’m Fine With That”: Wesley Hunt on Entering the U.S. Senate Race

The U.S. Senate primary race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton had, for months, looked like a clean face-off between the Republican establishment and the party’s activist wing. Cornyn is the longest-serving statewide official in Texas, a four-term senator and former member of his caucus’s leadership. He quickly locked down institutional support from all the places you’d expect (the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate Leadership Fund) and secured a steady slew of high-profile endorsements, among them former governor Rick Perry and the National Border Patrol Council. And while Paxton, Texas’s perpetually embattled attorney general, had less money, fewer endorsements, and no institutional backing, he benefits from a strong connection with the state’s most conservative voters, who tend to see Cornyn as something of a Beltway…

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