Left, Right & Center

Senate Control Rides On Paxton, Texas’ Flawed GOP Pick

May 29, 2026·50 min·6-min readconversationalpolitics
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In this episode of Left, Right and Center, host David Greene and panelists Mo Elleithee and Sarah Isgur analyze the political fallout from Ken Paxton’s landslide victory in Texas’s Republican Senate primary, fueled by Trump’s endorsement, and draw parallels to the Democratic Party’s own

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