'Captive of the crazy': Trump's dubious primary picks add to GOP's midterm burden
5/27/202643 min
As Texas Republicans follow Donald Trump's direction and give a primary victory to deeply flawed candidate, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Jim Messina, campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, and Chuck Rocha, former senior advisor to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, talk with Jen Psaki about how the Republican Party's inability to break away from unpopular Trump is setting them up for and even more difficult midterm election.
Ali Velshi offers insights from the election data.
Jen Psaki describes the basic contours of some of the many scandals that make the newly selected Texas Republican candidate for Senate, Ken Paxton, endorsed by Donald Trump, a disastrously difficult candidate for voters to support, even Trump-era Republican voters with a high tolerance for corruption, disgrace and dishonor.
Rep. Greg Casar, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, joins to discuss.
And Senator Cory Booker joins to discuss the potental shift in power in Congress after this year's midterms and how lame duck legislators burned by Trump may haunt him as their terms run out.
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Jen Psaki· Host0:50
Chris is right because we are ready to report a call in the biggest race of the night. It is just past 9:00 on the East Coast on this election night. Polls have just closed in the great state of Texas, and the Associated Press is ready to project that Trump-backed challenger Ken Paxton has defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn in what appears to be an absolute blowout. I mean, just look at that margin on your screen. Right now, with 48% of the vote counted, Paxton leads Cornyn by about 25 points. And I just wanna note here, John Cornyn is a leader in the Senate, in the Republican Senate. Ken Paxton