Ben Maisel

He's not like a MAGA MAGA guy, but Cornyn's pretty bad, but he's not like ultra MAGA.

Ken Paxton is as corrupt and MAGA as you get the AG in Texas.

And then Donald Trump,

uh said i'm going to endorse paxton in a primary over cornyn and republicans in the senate were pouring in millions of dollars to support cornyn and they still are going to because he's one of their colleagues and now when you look at the actual polling that's taking place in texas you have james talarico leading right now in texas on a head-to-head with paxton

And now Republicans are like, well, we're probably going to lose Texas now.

And we're going to be spending tens of millions of dollars to fight for Texas while we lose Texas.

And now that money could have been spent on other states.

And now we're looking at this map and this is deeply, you know, this is deeply problematic for control of the Senate.

And so they thought they'd at least control the Senate, lose the House.

Now they're thinking in the Republican circles, we're going to lose this.

We could lose the Senate right now.

if we lose if we lose texas so you had attorney general todd blanche he shows up and he talks about that 1.8 billion dollar slush fund and apparently republicans were like we're blocking your slush fund you screwed us we're not you know you screwed us over we're not doing the slush fund we're not doing the ballroom we're not doing that stuff it's just not we're not we're not going to support it we will support blocking it and apparently blanche started like yelling at them and they they're like who are you like who are you to yell at us

You're Donald Trump's personal attorney.

So that's what went down there.

Senate shuts down, House shuts down, and Donald Trump's in the Oval Office, and he's asked in the Oval Office, are you losing control of the Senate?

Are you losing control of Republicans in the Senate and even the House?

Here, let's play this clip of what Trump said.

What does it even mean?

It's being done very much in conjunction with them.

We saw the reconciliation bill.