Chip Roy Doesn’t Care What Anyone Thinks. Not Even Donald Trump.

Chip Roy picks at what is left of his tacos al pastor and looks on quietly as he ponders how he’s going to describe Donald Trump. It’s eleven days before the 2024 election, and I’m playing a word-association game with the U.S. congressman from Central Texas over a Friday lunch at Matt’s El Rancho. Roy frequents the Austin Tex-Mex institution so much that a picture of him hangs on a wall by the bar, alongside framed photos of other Lone Star luminaries such as Troy Aikman, Matthew McConaughey, and Dennis Quaid. His voice is hoarse from the campaign season, but the Republican is in good spirits. He knows he will easily win his race for reelection in Texas’s Twenty-First Congressional District and serve a fourth…

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