Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas might have made President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans an offer they cannot refuse.
Thursday on the social media platform X, Paxton pledged to “consider” withdrawing from the Texas GOP Senate primary race if Senate Republicans finally do the president’s bidding by nuking the filibuster to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
“The Save America Act is the most important bill the U.S. Senate could ever pass,”Paxtonwrote, “and I’m committed to helping President Trump get it done.”
Among other things, theSAVE Actwould require prospective voters to provide “documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.” It would also force states to “remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters.”
Democrats, of course, havegone apoplecticover the bill. They know, for instance, that cracking down on voter fraud, including noncitizen voters, would diminish their electoral chances. After all, why did they throw open the southern border under former PresidentJoe Biden, if not to boost their electoral numbers?
Senate Republicans, squishy as always, have balked atnuking the filibuster. But Paxton might have some real leverage.
In Tuesday’s Texas U.S. Senate primaries,Paxtonfinished only 1.2 percentage points behind incumbent GOP Senator John Cornyn. Widely regarded as a Republican in Name Only, or RINO, Cornyn must now fend off Paxton in a May 26 runoff.
Since three in five Texas GOP voters supported someone other than Cornyn, Paxton would appear to have a fighting chance.
Nonetheless, according toPolitico, Trump drove another dagger through the hearts of his MAGA supporters by signaling that he might endorse Cornyn to avoid a costly primary that could hurt the GOP in the general election against woke Democratic state Rep.James Talarico, who defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
Thus, Paxton has a strong hand to play, as he indicated on X.
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