Katty Kay

It was so Donald Trump.

It was like, J.D.

's going to have a moment in the sun.

I'm going to have two moments in the sun.

But the snub to Senator John Cornyn, this has been a race we've talked about this before.

Texas is now a race that is potentially in play for the Senate.

The Republican runoff was between sitting Senator John Cornyn, who has served for more than two decades, who is popular in his party.

but who has had run ins with Donald Trump and Donald Trump does not like him.

And between Ken Paxton, who is the attorney general, who is a man with about four or five different scandals and previous lawsuits against him, including accusations of adultery and financial misappropriations.

So Donald Trump has now endorsed Ken Paxton saying entirely it's because he is loyal to me, not making any pretense that this is about the good of the party.

We know it's not about the good of the party because this is a nightmare for majority leader John Thune, who wanted to have John Cornyn in there because he thinks John Cornyn could get elected.

But for Trump, it's another chance to show he controls the Republican Party.

And what do you reckon?

Can Ken Paxton now beat James Tallarico in the runoff for the Senate?

Look, you're talking about President Trump, right?

And he made it very clear in the Truth Social post that he sent out that this was all about because John Cornyn had not been loyal enough to Trump.

He didn't pretend that he was endorsing Ken Paxton for the good of the Republican Party.

I mean, he didn't even try to pretend that.

He just said this was about the fact that John Cornyn had not supported me.

He had not been close enough to me.