Karl Rove Absolutely Nukes GOP Candidate Who Could Turn Texas Blue

Fox News’ Karl Rove warned that Republican senatorial candidate Ken Paxton could be the one to finally turn Texas blue on Sunday night.

In scintillating rant, Rove warned of the dire consequences the GOP might face if it nominates Paxton over incumbent Senator John Cornyn (R-TX):

TREY GOWDY: All right, Karl, you know more about politics than I do, certainly. No endorsement, at least in my lifetime, has carried the weight of President Trump’s. Thus far he has not weighed in in the Senate primary in Texas. Where do you think that primary stands in your home state, and do you foresee the president getting involved or kind of just watching and letting it play out?

KARL ROVE: Well, first of all, full disclosure, I am a longtime friend of John Cornyn, the Republican incumbent. We’ve known each other since he was a district court judge 30 some odd years ago in Bear County in his early 30s. So I’ve known him a long, long time. I think the president’s going to sit and watch. He understands that it would be problematic if he were to endorse against a sitting Republican senator, particularly one is respected as John Corbyn.

I think he also, and the White House staff has been clear about this, they understand that this race in the general election, if Cornyn is the Republican nominee, is a gimme for the Republicans. And if his principal opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton, were to be the nominee, given the scandals, and indictments, and guilty pleas, and girlfriends, and mistresses, and jobs traded for mistresses, for influence inside the Attorney General’s office on issues important to corrupt, indicted, real estate guys, that’s not going to be a pleasant opportunity for Republicans to keep that seat. And we may, if Paxton were the nominee, see the first Democratic victory since 1994, statewide in Texas.

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