What Went Down At Biden’s State Of The Union And Texas’s Primary Election

My one contribution to the State of the Union responses is to note that New Jersey Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer trashed Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib for delivering the Working Families Party response, saying it was “like keying your own car and slashing your own tires,” and yet is headlining the No Labels response to Biden’s address tonight with Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

I’m assuming the Big Lie voters are backing Paxton, Alex! And he’s quite popular among the conspiracy theory right. Yesterday, a QAnon influencer on Telegram asked his followers who their dream cabinet would be, and many of them named Paxton as their dream U.S. attorney general.

That Republican primary for attorney general remains on a knife’s edge. Incumbent Ken Paxton looks set to advance to a runoff with 42 percent, but doesn’t look likely to win renomination outright with a majority of the vote. Land Commissioner George P. Bush holds a narrow lead for the other runoff slot, as he leads former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman 21 percent to 20 percent, but it’s really close. Rep. Louie Gohmert is in fourth place with 17 percent, so he may not be out of it either.