Combating for his political survival from the second ground of his marketing campaign bus final week, Senator John Cornyn warned a small crowd of s
Combating for his political survival from the second ground of his marketing campaign bus final week, Senator John Cornyn warned a small crowd of supporters that his celebration’s long-held dominance on this traditionally ruby-red state was in danger.
However whereas the three-term Texas Republican demonized Democrats at size, he didn’t spend a lot time speaking up the plain various: President Trump, the chief of his celebration, the person on the high of his ticket on Tuesday.
Requested whether or not Mr. Trump, the person who redefined Republicanism, was an asset to Mr. Cornyn’s re-election effort, the senator was instantly brief on phrases.
“Completely,” he mentioned, stone-faced.
Mr. Cornyn’s light distancing from Mr. Trump foreshadows a far much less genteel battle to come back. This yr’s election appears more likely to plunge each Republicans and Democrats right into a interval of disarray irrespective of who wins the White Home. With moderates and progressives poised to battle one another on the left, and an array of forces seeking to chart a post-Trump future on the suitable (be it in 2021 or in 4 years), each events seem destined for an ideological wilderness within the months forward as every tries to kind out its identities and priorities.
The questions going through partisans on either side are sweeping, and stay largely unresolved regardless of greater than a yr of a tumultuous presidential marketing campaign. After Democrats forged their eyes backward a number of generations for a extra average nominee, does a rising liberal wing characterize their future? And what turns into of a Republican Celebration that has been redefined by the president’s populist method, and politicians like Mr. Cornyn who’ve been within the lengthy shadow of Mr. Trump for 4 years?