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President Donald Trump says he’s not ready yet to take sides in the combustible Republican Senate primary in right-leaning Texas.
“I just haven’t made a decision on that race yet,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday night as he returned to the nation’s capital from Florida. “I like all three of them.”
Trump, whose comments came on the eve of the start of early voting in Texas ahead of the March 3 primary, was referring to longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who’s seeking re-election, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and two-term Rep. Wesley Hunt, a West Point graduate who flew Apache helicopters during his Army service and who represents a solidly Republican district in the Houston area.
Paxton and Hunt are challenging Cornyn in the state’s high-profile and divisive nomination race.
“They’ve all supported me. They’re all good, and you’re supposed to pick one. So, we’ll see what happens, but I support all three,” Trump said.
CORNYN TORCHES DEMOCRATIC FIELD AS HE SEEKS RE-ELECTION IN TEXAS
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is running for a fifth six-year term in the Senate. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Cornyn, who is backed by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), has been highlighting his Trump credentials, telling Fox News Digital late last year, “I get along well with the president. I’ve supported him during his first term, and now in his second term — I think the figure we came up with was 99.3% of the time. So I want the president to be successful and look forward to continuing to support him and his policies.”
But Paxton, a MAGA firebrand and longtime Trump supporter, and Hunt, a rising star in the MAGA world, question Cornyn’s loyalty to Trump and depict him as a RINO, the acronym for ‘Republican in Name Only.’
EARLY VOTING UNDERWAY IN TEXAS PRIMARY
Meanwhile, the NRSC and establishment Republicans are raising concerns that if…
