CNN Previews Brutal GOP Senate Primary in Texas: ‘Democrats Do Have a True Shot’ If Ken Paxton Wins

Isaac Schorr Aug 5th, 2025, 1:23 pm

A CNN panel moderated by Manu Raju previewed a brutal GOP Senate primary in Texas — and the nightmare candidate who might emerge from it — on Tuesday

“No state understands a Hail Mary better than Texas. And when it comes to the fight for a Donald Trump endorsement in the state’s Senate race, Ken Paxton is ready to shoot his shot. My new reporting today with my colleagues Sarah Ferris and Jeff Zeleny track the Texas attorney general 4,500 miles from home, all the way to the Scottish village of Turnberry while the president was there,” began Raju. “The two did not play a round of golf together and it’s actually not even clear Trump was expect

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