A chasm has emerged between two Texas Republican Senate candidates in the legal fight against Democrats who fled the state to block a redistricting push.

State GOP leaders are pushing several courts to clear the way for lawmakers to achieve a quorum and pass a new House map.

It has also become a shadow war in the state’s upcoming Senate GOP primary.

Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn went to the Texas Supreme Court to accuse his conservative primary challenger, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, of having “undercut efforts to bring legislators back to Texas.”

Paxton is now trading barbs with his rival, pushing back that he only “whines all day on X.”

The fracas began after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) last Tuesday launched a petition at the state’s high court aiming to declare the runaway Democ

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