Michelle Cottle

I'm here in Texas.

This is a particularly juicy Republican primary going on.

Just this week, Turning Point Action, the political arm of Turning Point USA, which is the conservative student group that Charlie Kirk co-founded, they endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican Senate primary.

This...

surprisingly, perhaps for a lot of people, sparked some pushback and outright disgust in certain conservative circles.

Now, on its face, this is a conservative group endorsing a very conservative candidate.

David, why don't you tell us what the big deal is going on here?

Well, that is a bold statement.

So, I hate to disappoint you, but pulling out that line, punch the left in the nose, is exactly what we're talking about here.

Because Cornyn is very conservative.

We're not talking about a squishy rhino versus a MAGA conservative.

I mean, John Cornyn is very conservative.

And talking to voters down here, there's a vote...

Cornyn's vote with Democrats to pass a very modest gun control bill is something that ticks off a lot of the Republicans in Texas.

But it is the bigger issue of he is seen as out of step with the modern Republican Party.

He's too much the part of that old kind of gentleman's Republican party.

Here's the last thing I'll say on this, which is that what I found talking to some Paxton supporters is that it's a matter of redefining what character is.

It's like character matters, but it's kind of the...

character definition of, are you fighting the good, patriotic, MAGA, stop the godless liberals fight?

That's much more important than whether or not you have slept around on your wife or you are corruptly using your office.