Tracy Mumford

That's been the case in Louisiana, Kentucky, and Indiana, where just in the last few weeks, the president's preferred candidates have all taken down GOP incumbents that Trump turned on.

Now, looking ahead to November, Democrats actually see Paxton's primary victory as an opportunity for them.

Lisa Lair is a national political correspondent for The Times.

She says Democrats are feeling confident about Paxton facing off against their candidate for Senate, James Tallarico.

No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas for decades, but Tallarico's quickly become a national name, gaining a huge amount of momentum, a lot of fundraising, and giving the party what they hope is their best chance in a generation.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola outbreak has now become the third largest on record.

And The Times has learned that the Trump administration is planning to send U.S.

citizens who've been exposed to the virus to Kenya.

It is a starkly different approach than how past administrations have responded to outbreaks.

In those cases, health care workers and other Americans who were exposed to Ebola were brought back to the U.S.

to be treated in specialized medical units.

One public health expert told The Times he was surprised by the change.

Ebola has a high death rate, about 50 percent, and he said people's chances of getting through an infection would be higher in the specialized facilities.

The Times talked with an American doctor who got Ebola back in 2014 when he was treating patients in Guinea.

He was then brought home.

And he said he thought it was unlikely that the facility the Trump administration is setting up in Kenya could match the sophistication of what the U.S.

already has.

He called leaving Americans there, quote, a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own.

A White House spokesman declined to comment.

And one last update on the Trump administration.