Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a primary challenge against the Lone State state's longtime Sen. John Cornyn in what might shape up to be an ugly battle.

A Republican, Cornyn has held the U.S. Senate seat from Texas since 2002 while Paxton has been active in Texas politics since he ascended to attorney general in 2015. In his announcement, Paxton said the state needs a new senator to "stand up for Republican values."

"I'm announcing that I'm running for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which would put him there three decades. It's definitely time for a change in Texas," Paxton told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her program.

Cornyn is one of the group of eight or so liberal Republicans who vote against conservative priorities. And when they do vote for those priorities, it is only because an intense pressure campaign has convinced them they are putting their careers at risk if they refuse. Thom Tillis, for example, whines that he was pressured to vote for Trump's nominees, and not-so-secretly schemed to get Pete Hegseth's brother's ex-wife (this sounds like the Spaceball joke) to come forward and make unfounded accusations against Hegseth to give him cover to vote against Hegseth. In the end, Tillis voted for Hegseth -- but only because MAGA informed him that his senate seat was in danger if he didn't. That's the same kind of McCain bullshit that Cornyn has been doing for decades now. Yet he claims, preposterously, that he's Fighting For President Trump and Paxton is the guy trying to undermine Trump:

"During his first term John Cornyn voted with President Trump more than 95% of current Senators, securing the votes for his biggest accomplishments as his Whip," said the post. "Democrats are trying to destroy President Trump, and he and Texas need a battle-tested conservative who knows how to protect his agenda in the Senate and won't be outsmarted by Chuck Schumer." Give me a break.

At least one recent poll from Texas Public Opinion Research gives Paxton a 10-point edge over Cornyn for the time being.

Cornyn is one of Mitch McConnell's loyalists. And speaking of: McConnell just voted against another Trump nominee, in an act that JD Vance called out as the "one of the great acts of political pettiness" from McConnell.
Vice President JD Vance lit up Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after the senator voted against the nomination of Elbridge Colby to serve as Under Secretary of Policy at the Defense Department, describing the move as a grand display of "political pettiness."

"Mitch's vote today -- like so much of the last few years of his career -- is one of the great acts of political pettiness I've ever seen," Vance said, as Colby's nomination brought out the worst of globalists.

In a statement explaining his vote against President Donald Trump's choice, McConnell asserted that Colby's public record "suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy."

"The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy," McConnell continued.

Give me money, China.