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

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate spot presently held by Sen. John Cornyn aft Paxton handily won the runoff against Cornyn connected Tuesday. When President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton precocious successful the race, the run was efficaciously over. It is President Trump’s GOP, and his endorsement successful a superior is the decider. Period.

Had Cornyn been the nominee, his re-election would person been a layup. Paxton’s contention against Texas authorities Rep. James Talarico volition beryllium overmuch much similar a contested 3-pointer successful the NBA than a layup. Talarico is indeed, arsenic President Trump nicely summed it up, "weird." But adjacent fixed that, Paxton volition request to rise a ton of wealth due to the fact that the engines of the Democratic fundraising instrumentality are already astatine apical velocity for the hard-left Talarico. Paxton should win, but adjacent Golden State Warriors prima and aboriginal NBA Hall of Famer Steph Curry hits lone somewhat much than 42% of his shots from beyond the arc. Curry whitethorn beryllium the champion ever, but it’s a pugnacious task to drill that shot.

So excessively is Paxton’s task. The full Texas GOP volition request to get down him quickly, and Paxton volition request Cornyn’s half-million runoff voters and his fiscal supporters. The full GOP volition request to plaything down Paxton, adjacent though Cornyn is respected and admired by longtime conservatives similar maine who worth his cognition of the Constitution, his enactment connected the Judiciary Committee successful each pugnacious combat determination implicit decades, and his tenure arsenic GOP whip. But enactment loyalists person to cognize that ours is simply a two-party strategy and Winston Churchill’s admonition, "Trust the people!" applies successful each just contest.

So excessively does the contented of different superb premier curate of Great Britain — Benjamin Disraeli, whose years arsenic person of the United Kingdom’s Conservatives came successful the 19th century.

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"It is not becoming successful immoderate Minister to decry enactment who has risen by party," Disraeli declared agelong ago. "We should ever retrieve that if we were not partisans, we should not beryllium Ministers." The aforesaid applies to each elected subordinate of the GOP Senate stung by the decision dealt their person by the Lone Star State’s Republican voters.

The Senate bulk is precise overmuch up for grabs successful the fall. Republicans indispensable support 4 seats successful which Democrats volition equine well-financed campaigns, adjacent if their nominees are weak. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Jon Husted of Ohio look hard-left Democrats successful Graham Platner and erstwhile Sen. Sherrod Brown. Platner is rapidly becoming an albatross for Democrats crossed the country, arsenic good arsenic successful Maine, but Maine is simply a purple-to-blue state. Brown is arsenic formidable a campaigner arsenic Democrats tin tract successful ruby-red Ohio.

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Republicans besides person to support an unfastened spot successful North Carolina. Former nationalist GOP president Michael Whatley has sizeable skills and fiscal backing, but helium drew the champion campaigner of each the Democrats successful 2026’s adjacent races: erstwhile Tar Heel State Gov. Roy Cooper. Democrats person a susceptible incumbent successful Georgia, wherever Sen. Jon Ossoff is inactive precise overmuch the "accidental senator," but helium is arsenic hard-left arsenic Democratic activists and donors want. Michigan, Minnesota and New Hampshire are each seats held by retiring Democrats, and Republicans should nominate fantabulous candidates not conscionable against Ossoff but besides successful these 3 states.

James Talarico, a Democrat from Texas and US Senate candidate, speaks astatine a run lawsuit successful Round Rock, Texas, US, connected Tuesday, March 3, 2026.  (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

So portion the GOP’s existent borderline successful the Senate is three, and power would flip to Democrats lone if their nominees triumph 4 of the 7 seats "in play," that’s not an intolerable result, particularly successful the sixth twelvemonth of immoderate presidency.

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The existent accomplishments of each presidents yet get reduced to 2 oregon 3 lines successful American textbooks. TR, for example, is champion known for the Great White Fleet, the nationalist parkland strategy — and the predetermination of Woodrow Wilson and each the sick that was brought down upon the state due to the fact that of Roosevelt’s determination to divided the GOP successful 1912. Richard Nixon’s 3 are summed up arsenic opening China, détente with the Soviets and Watergate. It beauteous overmuch works that mode for everyone not named Lincoln oregon Washington.

Right now, President Trump’s tentative trio is redeeming the Constitution with his 3 Supreme Court nominees, the warfare with Iran and his singular 2016 upset and 2024 comeback.

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If the Senate flips, that grounds is going to alteration dramatically, arsenic the lawfare Trump faced portion retired of bureau volition airy adjacent to the procession of articles of impeachment from the House and never-ending trials successful the Senate — nary of which would win successful removing Trump from bureau but each of which volition drain the past 2 years of his tenure of joyousness and of different imaginable legislative accomplishments.

Holding connected to the Senate bulk is captious to the president, the enactment and particularly the country. The Democrats person collectively embraced an docket of utmost argumentation and rhetoric. So, immoderate your feelings astir immoderate of the GOP’s Senate nominees, enactment them speech and recognize — erstwhile again — it is the enactment with the bulk successful the 2 chambers of Congress that sets overmuch of the agenda. There simply isn’t immoderate country to brood implicit pugnacious losses.

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