President Trump is visiting Texas today, where three of his supporters are battling it out,

and that's state's Senate primary election set for next week.

That says the president also considers military action in Iran.

Lots to discuss.

And we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart.

That's with the Atlantic's David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS now. It's good to see you both.

So as we said, President Trump in Texas were three Republicans to include the incumbent John

Cornyn. They're locked in this competitive GOP primary. The president has yet to make an endorsement.

The fact that he's inserting himself early and forcefully in this race, does that suggest that he's still

the GOP kingmaker or that he's trying to demonstrate that he is? A little of both, maybe a little

more of the latter. The Texas race, to me, is the most interesting Senate race in both parties,

because it gets at the core debate right at the middle of both parties. On the

Democratic side, you're Jasmine Crockett, who's an aggressive, progressive fighter. And then you

have James Talerico, who is more moderate, is trying to revive the religious left. And so the

argument on the Democratic side is, do we want somebody who will just go to the mat and take down

these Republicans, or do we want somebody who will be conciliatory and win over people from the center?

And that is the core debate in the Democratic Party.

On the Republican side, you've got Ken Paxton, who has been scandal-plagued since nursery school.

And then you've got John Cornyn, who is not the most exciting bulb in the Senate, but a

standard-issue Republican.

And so the Paxton race in particular, and he'll probably come out first, but force a runoff,

shows that there's still some juice if he does really well in MAGA.

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