Three Things to Understand About Ken Paxton

Ed Kilore: “The first is that his party is frantic to save him from an increasingly plausible loss to Democrat James Talarico. Both statistically and symbolically, losing a Senate seat in the second-largest state, a GOP bastion for a generation, could be catastrophic for Republicans…”

“The second thing to know is that Paxton is, in a word, unlovable. Yes, he is an ideological MAGA warrior of the highest order with a base of loyalists in Texas that has saved his career again and again. But he’s a man of many vices, a serial adulterer (or so his estranged wife has suggested) with questionable financial ethics who seems perpetually on the brink of the scandal that will finally bring him down…”

“The third important thing to understand is that even as Republicans go to the mat for this difficult man, spending money they’d far rather spend elsewhere, Paxton is undermining the effort to help him with comments that enrage his would-be saviors.”