The no-win Texas Senate race

The no-win Texas Senate race


In November, Texans will go to the polls to choose their new junior senator. This choice comes down to one of the most corrupt and morally repugnant politicians in recent memory and a full-blown heretic. A scandal-plagued liability masquerading as an anti-establishment freedom fighter versus a far-left progressive culture warrior cosplaying as a theologian.

It is a shame that one of these deeply unserious individuals will now represent the U.S.’s second-largest state. 

To be fair, this race was a no-win proposition before Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the GOP primary earlier this week. Cornyn, while lacking Paxton’s personal flaws, is perhaps the Republican Party’s biggest traitor on gun rights. Cornyn helped push through the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the worst gun control bill in decades. The law made it more difficult for citizens under 21 to buy a gun and provided federal funding and incentives

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