{"id":185,"date":"2026-05-28T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:10:46","slug":"republicans-melt-down-over-trumps-self-inflicted-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Melt Down Over Trump\u2019s \u2018Self-Inflicted\u2019 Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Republicans are biting their nails over how much cash Donald Trump\u2019s meddling in a primary race may now mean they have to splurge on a general election in a state that should\u2019ve been theirs for the taking. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=183\">SCOTUS Justice\u2019s Son Landed Secret Trump Job<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scandal magnet Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton got a runoff win over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn for the top spot on the GOP\u2019s ticket in November after president issued a last-minute endorsement. But the primary is estimated to have cost the party\u2019s warring factions a record-breaking total of $135 million, and Paxton will now compete with rising Democratic star James Talarico for Cornyn\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Almost a dozen party donors and strategists told Politico on Thursday they\u2019re now terrified it could cost as much as an additional $150 million to haul Paxton, 63, through his midterm contest with Talarico, 36.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is an extraordinary GOP expenditure for Texas, which has not elected a Democrat to statewide office in 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>Those costs would, in turn, drain key resources from races in other traditional battleground states. \u201cLast night will go down as one of the worst self-inflicted political wounds of all-time,\u201d as one source put it to Politico. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is happier than Democrats,\u201d another agreed. \u201cEven if Paxton holds the seat\u2014as is likely, though not guaranteed\u2014donor funds will be diverted from critical races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=181\">Trump Voters Turn on Him as Price Pain Spirals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paxton drags an unusually long list of scandals with him into the contest\u2014even for a Trump favorite. He faced three felony counts within just months of taking office in 2015 over claims he\u2019d funneled investors toward a tech company that was quietly paying him. <\/p>\n<p>His own aides then reported him to the FBI in 2020, alleging he\u2019d used his powers as a public official to grant favors to a wealthy donor, real estate mogul Nate Paul. The allegations drove his 2023 impeachment by the Republican-led Texas House on bribery and abuse-of-office articles, though the state Senate ultimately acquitted him.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton\u2019s personal life has proven just as messy. The impeachment proceedings exposed an extramarital affair with a Senate aide, Laura Olson, whom Paul had given a job at his company, which critics slammed as a bare-faced bribe. Paxton\u2019s wife, Republican state Sen. Angela Paxton, announced last July she was divorcing him \u201con biblical grounds.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Contrast that record with Talarico\u2014a squeaky-clean former middle school teacher who can quote scripture by heart\u2014and the November race for four-term Sen. Cornyn\u2019s seat just got more competitive than any Republican might\u2019ve thought possible in a state this red.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTexas is not breaking its 32-year Republican streak for a woke freak who thinks there are six genders,\u201d Republican National Committee spokesperson Zach Kraft told the Daily Beast when asked for comment on this story. \u201cIf Democrats want to light a pile of cash on fire, we will hand them the match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=179\">Don Jr. Makes Instant Millions From Pentagon Pete\u2019s Drone Revelation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are biting their nails over how much cash Donald Trump\u2019s meddling in a primary race may now mean they have to splurge on a general election in a state that should\u2019ve been theirs for the taking. 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