Today’s Primary Showdown Has Been Years in the Making (and It Might Not Be Over Anytime Soon)

Way back in August 2023, when Ron DeSantis was still a name you remembered and Joe Biden was alertly campaigning for president—a time of yore that, in due course, will feel like just a rumor—a strange thing happened in Texas. The 2026 election got underway. That month, state Attorney General Ken Paxton was staring down an impeachment trial in the Texas Senate on a CVS-receipt-length list of charges concerning public corruption. A political action committee funded by his billionaire far-right Christian megadonor, however, had the zen to look further ahead. On August 29, 2023, Defend Texas Liberty PAC released a push poll of likely GOP primary voters, focusing up top on their views of the AG and the allegations levied against him. Then came the good…

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