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So the political career of John Cornyn, 40-year Texas politician, Attorney General, rising to the Senate, has been ended in an extraordinarily humiliating defeat to Attorney General of the state, Paxton, who beat him in the runoff that Cornyn actually won by two points, by 30 points.

So Republicans faced with a head-to-head choice between Cornyn and Paxton,

it would appear that half of Cornyn's voters decided to switch over and vote for Paxton in the two months between the primary and this runoff. Thus, I guess, you know, validating Donald Trump's

decision last week to endorse Paxton, which I assume he did because the private numbers must have shown that a result like this was on the way and he wanted to get on the side of the very obvious winner.

So he could claim the victory, though. When you win by 30 points, I don't really think that it's what Trump came in and switched 30, switched it to a 30 point margin in a week.

He may have increased the margin, though.

Yeah.

Because one interesting aspect of this result, and there are many interesting aspects, but one is Paxton outperform the polls.

The polls were showing a closer race, still a Paxton lead, the head of Cornyn. But this type of margin is pretty incredible. It's the largest defeat

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