As you can see, Texas MAGA Congressman Wesley Hunt on Monday made it official and jumped into the Lone Star State’s Republican Senate primary against John Cornhole Cornyn the (de facto) third-highest-ranking sitting member of the majority caucus in the chamber. No poll of the race had ever put Hunt in serious contention against Cornyn or his main challenger, corrupt Picasso-faced state Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose once-prohibitive lead over Cornyn has slipped somewhat. Yet Hunt can still have a significant impact as his entrance into the race will very likely pull the other two candidates under 50 percent and force a runoff in what was already an expensive and messy primary of a sitting US Senator who’d won four statewide elections before he ran for Congress.

That assumes that Republican voters don’t see that pic on Hunt’s campaign website. It’s the second of three in a carousel and you’ll never guess who Hunt is pictured with in the other two. Okay, you already guessed and yeah, he’s trying to make it look like convicted felon President Trump already endorsed him without actually saying that Trump already endorsed him. Not a new move in this race.

But that pic of Hunt with his lovely wife and children is… um… audacious. Not that he shouldn’t put any pics of them on the site. Other male Republican candidates have literally borrowed other guys’ wives and kids to pose for campaign photos and make it look like they were not single.

It’s just that, well you know, it might have been more prudent to put it lower on the homepage of the site as some MAGA voters in Texas might take exception to it. In fact that photo could exacerbate the kind of emotional impulses that led them to become MAGA voters in the first place – that yearning to return to a time when it would have been used as the prosecution’s exhibit number one in Texas v Hunt, repeatedly shoved in the faces of a jury of twelve of his Caucasian peers.