The US president’s backing of Maga extremists turns off the very voters Republicans need to win over in the midterms
Donald Trump gave it a minute.
At 9.01pm it was confirmed that Texas attorney general Ken Paxton – a hardliner backed by the US president – had triumphed over incumbent John Cornyn in the state’s Republican primary runoff for the US Senate. By 9.02pm, Trump had started celebrating on social media.