Republicans, stop fighting each other. We can't let Democrats seize the Senate

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Republicans, stop fighting each other. We can't let Democrats seize the Senate
The Senate majority is very much up for grabs in the fall. Republicans must defend four seats in which Democrats will mount well-financed campaigns, even if their nominees are weak
By Hugh Hewitt Fox News
Published May 28, 2026 5:00am EDT

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn after Paxton handily won the runoff against Cornyn on Tuesday. When President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton late in the race, the campaign was effectively over. It is President Trump’s GOP, and his endorsement in a primary is the decider. Period.

Had Cornyn been the nominee, his re-election would have been a layup. Paxton’s race against Texas state Rep. James Talarico will be much more like a contested 3-pointer in the NBA than a layup. Talarico is indeed, as President Trump nicely summed it up, "weird." But even given that, Paxton will need to raise a ton of money because the engines of the Democratic fundraising machine are already at top speed for the hard-left Talarico. Paxton should win, but even Golden State Warriors star and future NBA Hall of Famer Steph Curry hits only slightly more than 42% of his shots from beyond the arc. Curry may be the best ever, but it’s a tough task to drill that shot.

So too is Paxton’s task. The entire Texas GOP will need to get behind him quickly, and Paxton will need Cornyn’s half-million runoff voters and his financial supporters. The whole GOP will need to swing behind Paxton, even though Cornyn is respected and admired by longtime conservatives like me who value his knowledge of the Constitution, his work on the Judiciary Committee in every tough fight there over decades, and his tenure as GOP whip. But party loyalists have to know that ours is a two-party system and Winston Churchill’s admonition, "Trust the people!" applies in every fair contest.

So too does the wisdom of another brilliant prime minister of Great Britain — Benjamin Disraeli, whose years as leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservatives came in the 19th century.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Sure.  We need to shut up and unite behind Thune....

[MeganC]

Sure.  We need to shut up and unite behind Thune....

 

[Cyber Liberty]

Hewett has lost his mind.

[MeganC]

"Party Before Pinciple" is not a practice I entertain or tolerate.

[DefiantMassRINO]

If GOP wants to keep US Senate, GOP Senators need to play ball with the unwashed deplorable masses.  We don't have to vote for incumbents, nor do we have to show up to vote at all.

Candidates and incumbents need to give us a reason to show up and vote for them.  I'm tired of Conservative-Lite Republicans voting to maintain the status quo.  The status quo is failing; and to vote for status quo incumbents is to double down on failure.

[Cyber Liberty]

If GOP wants to keep US Senate, GOP Senators need to play ball with the unwashed deplorable masses.  We don't have to vote for incumbents, nor do we have to show up to vote at all.

Candidates and incumbents need to give us a reason to show up and vote for them.  I'm tired of Conservative-Lite Republicans voting to maintain the status quo.  The status quo is failing; and to vote for status quo incumbents is to double down on failure.

This is why Cassidy and Cornyn are out of a job.  The voters will keep doing it until the behavior improves!