Washington Edition

Trump Decides to Sidestep Texas GOP Fight Over Senate Nomination

Cornyn and Paxton are left to fight it out until a runoff in May.
An attendee a Texas primary election night event for Attorney General Ken Paxton, who faces Senator John Cornyn in a runoff election.Photographer: Antranik Tavitian/Bloomberg

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The Republican infighting in Texas isn’t going to die down anytime soon with President Donald Trump no longer expected to endorse either candidate in the state’s increasingly nasty Senate primary runoff.