just put Texas in play if Paxson in fact wins.

But let's take it a step further because, you know, people always say to me, Joe, you're playing not seven-dimensional layered chess.

You're like nine or ten or eleven. Let's take it beyond that. Not only do they put Texas in play and give Tala Rico a shot to make it competitive by putting it up that runaway

beer truck right there that you're looking at.

Put that runaway beer truck up and wanting him to win the Senate.

If he beats Cornyn and he most likely will beat Cornyn with Trump's endorsement in Texas.

You now have millions and millions of dollars that would have been spent elsewhere being spent to try to save a seat that Cornon could have probably won, two, three, four points.

But not only that, look what Bill Cassidy did yesterday.

He voted with Murkowski and others on the War Powers Resolution. So now you're going to have him.

You're likely going to have John Cornyn. You're likely going to have Tom Killis. You're likely going to have other senators.

Thank you, Senator Bill Cassidy. Such courage, such courage. I wish you would have shown it for

RFK Jr. But anyway, you know what? I'm a Southern Baptist. We take converts and we can get them,

even if it's the 15th version just as I am. You're welcome into the family. Thank you. God bless you. And now go and send no more.

But here we are. Think about it. You're going to have three, four, five senators that are on their way

out, John, that are going to pretty much stop a great deal of what Donald Trump does because

they're unchained.

These generic ballot tests and them getting the news that it's likely they're going to have to throw millions and millions of dollars into a Texas race with Ken Paxson that they wouldn't if John Cornyn won.

Yeah, well, the problem with being in a vice, Joe, is even when you know you're in a vice, you're in a vice. It means you have a hard time getting out of it. Yeah. You know, and who knows? Look, maybe this slush fund will end up compensating Jim Comey and Letitia James, and then they can say, listen, we were serious about this anti-weaponization thing.weaponization thing but otherwise and you know maybe they'll refer to the ballroom as a jobs creating program there's a

lot of construction there absent all of that these are as you've mentioned really big problems for

republicans and they know this all right they are saying this in very subtle careful ways which

actually is a big deal when you look at how, you know, Congress has been functioning in this second Trump presidency.

But as I reported for the dispatch and a story that posted earlier this week, Trump's power in Republican primaries is such that when the first order of business to keep your job is winning renomination,

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