Texas MAGA Congressman Wesley Hunt tells CNN he’s heard Senate Republicans begging him to get the fuck out of the now-three-way primary for John Cornhole Cornyn’s seat but doesn’t give a shit that it’ll probably force a runoff between Cornyn and Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton that will cost them tens of millions of dollars, Hunt is “absolutely” staying in the race.

“If Senate leadership does not like me being in this race, you know what I say? Good, because Senate leadership does not pick the leadership in Texas,” Hunt said, adding “This is like a David and Goliath kind of story. I have a couple of smooth stones to throw at him, but guess what? They are very effective. The people of Texas are looking for an alternative, and it’s my job to give them one.”

A Cornyn ally says that “very senior Republicans,” are furious with Hunt and have repeatedly told him to get out of the race. This person did not, however, say if convicted felon President Trump was one of said very senior Republicans. In fact Hunt himself said that neither Donald nor any of his minions told him the same. “Nobody has told me a word,” Hunt said of the White House’s position.

Thing is that if Trump was going to make an endorsement and end this shitshow he probably would’ve done it already. Yet Cornyn persists in pleading with the fat bastard. “We’ll spend a lot of money that could be spent more productively elsewhere. If I’m at the top of the ticket, chances are that it will help down ballot races including these congressional seats that are now in litigation. So I think it’s in the president’s best interest, and that’s what I’ve explained to him,” he said.

A Paxton ally does not see it happening and thinks that their guy will be the one who is ultimately showered in Trump’s golden glory. “It ends the race for us the moment it comes out. But him staying out of the race is good for us too. And it’s pretty fatal for Cornyn,” Pax’s anonymous pal said.

One hint that maybe it is likely that Trump will back Paxton is that Hunt refused to attack Picasso-face. “I’m not getting in people’s personal lives because that’s just not how I roll,” Hunt said when asked about Paxton. Okay bro. Leave his infidelity and divorce out of it and there’s still plenty of non-“personal” shit you can use as ammo against your opponent in a contested primary, lol.

It just looks like Hunt is refraining from going after Paxton because he’s afraid that it would upset Trump unless… Not to get all conspiratorial here, but did some wealthy Paxton patron bribe Hunt to enter the primary? Like at first glance Hunt probably does eat more into Paxton’s hardcore MAGA base than he does Cornyn’s country club RINO set, but not all of it and obviously Cornyn’s allies wouldn’t be so freaked out if they thought Hunt would only damage Paxton in a three-way.

So what if forcing the runoff is that actual point of this Hunt-Paxton collusion? Pax was crushing Cornyn until some more recent polls put it closer – some of them with Cornyn ahead even. But Hunt’s position never really changed in polls speculating what a three-way would look like and then he jumped in anyway last month, much to the chagrin of Team Cornyn and very little if any of Team Paxton. Why? Because forcing a runoff guarantees lower turnout than on normal primary election day, and it’s possible that Paxton’s campaign sees this as an advantage, betting that fanatic MAGA Texans all in for Ken will show up while more RINO-y primary voters, having already cast their ballots in March, will be pretty meh on getting off the couch again for a piece of styrofoam like Cornyn.

It’s already obvious which one of them Hunt is going to endorse when he comes in third.

In related news, here’s a funny, stupid Twitter anecdote:

So they hired a new pollster to find them a more favorable result?

— National Zero (@NationalZeroUSA) November 24, 2025

I write way too many wiseass replies like this while I’m doomscrolling to find for the latest news for content here. I actually was not aware at the time I posted it whether the McConnell-Cornyn-Thune Senate Leadership Fund PAC – whose May poll of the race had found Paxton leading by friggin 16 percent – had indeed hired a different pollster to test the race, I was just being a heckler.

They really did: it was “Tarrance” in May and “Ragnar” now, but that’s not even the funny part.

This Christopher Wilson guy – who is NOT a small deal in the rarified world of Republican pollsters – evidently clicked like in his personal account and then switched to his firm’s account and then liked it again. Why? A good guess might be found in an Axios story from July that quotes an internal memo Wilson wrote warning that Paxton’s nothing but trouble for the Senate GOP’s 2026 outlook.

“If the goal is to maintain a GOP Senate majority and maximize Trump’s down-ballot coattails in Texas, Paxton’s nomination is a strategic liability. If Paxton wins the primary, the GOP is on a path to hand Democrats their best Senate opportunity in a generation,” Wilson wrote. So yeah, it seems likely he thinks this favorable polling number for Cornyn is purposely skewed bullshit too.

(All due apologies for treating social media likes as newsworthy. This one unfortunately kind of is.)