Fox’s Hume suggests Trump endorsement could hand Texas Senate seat to Dems
May 21, 2026 | Chris Donaldson
President Donald J. Trump finally made his endorsement in the Texas Senate race, endorsing the state’s controversial Attorney General Ken Paxton over longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
The president’s pick hasn’t gone over well with some GOP senators who have griped to the media, and in a brutal column, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board went so far as to say that “Trump makes Chuck Schumer’s day by endorsing Ken Paxton” and that he put the normally safe seat “in play” by not endorsing Cornyn.
In the opinion of the WSJ Editorial Board, Trump “will deserve complete and total credit” if Republicans lose the seat and “If Mr. Paxton wins next week and Texas ends up being the seat that turns Senate control to the Democrats, Mr. Trump will deserve ‘complete and total’ credit, as he likes to put it.”
The column came up during a discussion of Trump’s choice on Wednesday’s edition of “Special Report” on Fox News, with the chief political analyst agreeing with the paper that questions about Paxton’s ethics could open the door for the Democrats in the Lone Star state, despite their own candidate, state Rep. James Talarico, having his own issues.
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