Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito said President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the Senate race was part of a strategy.
“I think Trump understood that there was just a wave of movement conservatives behind Paxton,” Zito said on the Hugh Hewitt Show Wednesday.
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Paxton defeated four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday. Paxton garnered more than 60% of the vote when the Associated Press called the race, marking a shift in the GOP from establishment Republicans to more Trump-backed MAGA Republicans.
“When there is a movement, the old goes out, and the new comes in,” Zito said.
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Cornyn is a long-serving GOP member who represents traditional conservative values. Trump even called Cornyn a “good man” in a Truth Social post last Wednesday.
Paxton and Cornyn had been vying for a Trump endorsement, as the two spent weeks
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