#ken-paxton

#ken-paxton

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.

It was part of a larger struggle over control of Congress in next year's midterm elections, but now the conflict has broadened: to California, where Gavin Newsom's Democrats are trying to squeeze more Democratic seats out of their map; to Indiana, where Republicans are hoping to repeat what they did in Texas on a smaller scale; and to other states across the country.

In Texas classrooms, we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed, and prayers lifted up, Paxton said in a statement on Tuesday, encouraging students to say the Lord's Prayer, as taught by Jesus Christ. The press release included the full text of the Lord's Prayer as it is written in the King James version of the Bible, the latest example of Paxton and other Texas officials seeming to endorse Christianity over other faiths.