Trump’s iron grip on the Republican party has never been stronger. What about the country?
by Callum Jones from on (#75XA4)
The US president's backing of Maga extremists turns off the very voters Republicans need to win over in the midterms
Donald Trump gave it a minute.
At 9.01pm it was confirmed that the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton - a hardliner backed by the US president - had triumphed over the incumbent John Cornyn in the state's Republican primary runoff for the US Senate. By 9.02pm, Trump had started celebrating on social media.
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