{"id":730,"date":"2026-05-19T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:04:55","slug":"in-texas-trump-made-one-of-the-dumbest-political-decisions-of-his-presidencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"In Texas, Trump made one of the dumbest political decisions of his presidencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maybe it\u2019s finally time for the White House to reconsider the whole \u201clet Trump be Trump\u201d thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Five takeaways from Graham Platner\u2019s New York Times interview<\/a><\/p>\n

What was once the guiding principle of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign \u2014 running on vibes over tactics \u2014 has now emboldened the president to make what might be the single dumbest political move of either of his presidencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision on Tuesday to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s challenge against Republican Senator John Cornyn couldn\u2019t have come at a worse time for the Republican Party, or possibly even for Trump himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to backing a candidate like Paxton, who has aligned himself with the party\u2019s extreme right and carries so much baggage that Texas suddenly looks like a Senate toss-up in the general election, the endorsement also came at the worst possible moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

It came one day before early voting began in Texas, but long after the race had already earned the designation as the most expensive Republican Senate primary in American history. By the time the Republican primary occurred in early March, more than $110 million had been spent fighting Republican money with Republican money in the nation\u2019s second-largest state. Neither candidate was able to secure the 50 percent necessary to avoid a runoff, so here we are more than two months later with tens of millions more being spent in a race that could over now that Trump has endorsed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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