The president last night praised Sen. John Cornyn as an “underrated person,” telling NBC News that he was impressed by the incumbent senator’s performance in Tuesday’s primary after polls has consistently showed him trailing challenger Ken Paxton, who is Texas’ attorney general.
“He was supposed to lose by 10 points and he won,” Trump said. “He’s a good man.”
That was as close to tipping his hand on his pending endorsement in the Cornyn-Paxton runoff as the president would get during a 10-minute phone call. The president has said he will reveal his endorsement in the race soon, and whichever candidate doesn’t get it should drop out of the race.
The president expressed no concern about the Democratic nominee in Texas, State Rep. James Talarico, carrying the Lone Star State.
“He’s a radical left lunatic. He’s worse than Crockett,” Trump said, referring to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who lost to Talarico in Tuesday’s primary. Trump noted newly surfaced videos of Talarico discussing multiple genders, which the president considered disqualifying in Texas.
“Crockett was a very untalented person,” Trump said. “In retrospect, she might have been better than him. When you look at his comments on six genders, on Christianity.”
During the call, Trump also spoke about some of his goals for Iran and his reasons for firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
