MAGA wins, Cornyn falls. Brace for November

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of recent primary elections in Texas, focusing on Ken Paxton's victory and John Cornyn's political future.

It was a big night for MAGA and a bad night to be an incumbent. The sleepy primary runoff election on May 26 catapulted Ken Paxton and retired John Cornyn – setting the stage for the November General Election. After attending Paxton’s party in Plano, Scott Braddock joined the Jasons for a pint to talk about the coming clash between Paxton and Democrat James Talarico, what Cornyn might do in his remaining 7-months in office, and the emerging issue that state lawmakers will face when they gavel back into session in January. Special thanks to Peticolas Brewery for hosting this episode of Y’all-itics. GUEST: Scott Braddock / Editor of the Quorum Report

People in this episode

Host: Jasons

Guest: Scott Braddock

Topics covered

• MAGA
• primary runoff election
• November General Election
• Texas politics
• incumbent challenges

Keywords

• MAGA
• Ken Paxton
• John Cornyn
• James Talarico
• Texas politics
• primary runoff
• November election

Sponsors

Peticolas Brewery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Quorum Report

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