When political parties support candidates who lose primaries, the resulting electoral losses can create incentives for those defeated candidates to oppose party leadership, as they have 'nothing to lose' and may vote against the party agenda to demonstrate their independence.
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RNC Scrubbed Its Own Paxton Attack Ads — Too Late, Someone Already Saved ThemAdded:
The Republicans did not want Ken Paxton to win that nomination in Texas.
As is evident by the ads they ran against Ken Ken Paxton leading up to that election.
This is amazing. So now that Ken Paxton has won the Republican Senate primary in Texas, the RNC is feverishly pulling down all of the attack ads it had posted about Ken Paxton because of course they were supporting John Cornyn.
Fortunately, somebody saved this video before it came down. So whatever you do, don't share it everywhere in Texas.
This is the sound of Texas.
And this is how it sounds under Ken Paxton.
This is a Republican ad.
Shots fired.
Shots fired.
And so, which Texas do you want to hear?
Looks like they chose. Anyway, Republicans, you made your bed and now you got to lie in it. Lucky for you, lying is the one thing you do really well. So have fun with that.
This is Donald Trump uh asserting his dominance over the Republican Party and telling the old school Republican guard that even though he only has a couple of years left in office, this is his party.
And you know, he got the people onto the ticket that he wanted to get.
The question is is he going to like the end result? Now, when it comes to Texas, do I think that James Talarico is is just going to waltz all over Ken Paxton and win that uh Senate seat?
No.
It's Texas, after all.
And I'm I've been saying it for years and and I have yet to regret saying it.
I'll believe Texas is going to be blue when Texas is blue on election night.
As [clears throat] long as it's Texas, I still believe that people like Ken Paxton have a very strong chance of winning even with all of his [ __ ] But this is Donald Trump pissing off the Republican Party. And he may have gotten the people that he wanted on the ticket.
But what are the people that now lost their primaries and still have a few months left in office to go going to do? Now that they don't have anything to lose.
He has pissed off several Republican senators.
Enough of which that if they switch their votes and they voted with Democrats on some issues would mean the difference between these these these measures getting passed and not getting passed.
These four or five senators that he has pissed off, Thune and Tillis and Cornyn and a handful of a handful of others.
These these Republican senators that he has pissed off now they don't have to worry about anything. What are you going to say something mean about me? I lost my primary. I'm not I'm going to lose my seat in the in the November election. I got nothing to lose.
I hope that these Republican senators now step up and do the right thing over the course of the next several months and stifle any advancement of this agenda whatsoever.
And then let's hope that there there are some Senate seats that can be flipped. I am not holding my breath that this Senate seat in Texas can be flipped. I am definitely not holding my breath that the Senate seat in Maine can be flipped.
I think the one I think that we can pick up congressional seats from either the House or the Senate in places traditionally Republican places like Ohio, Iowa and Alaska potentially.
But once again, this is Donald Trump telling the Republican Party, "I don't [ __ ] care what you think.
This is my party."
Question is, what are these guys going to do with that now?
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