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A senior senator who voted with President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda 99% of the time. One of Texas\u2019 most conservative lawmakers. A three-term state representative endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott.<\/p>

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All lost their runoff elections Tuesday night to Trump-endorsed opponents, a decisive sweep that serves as a fresh reminder that the Texas GOP remains in complete lockstep with the president.<\/p>\n

Once led by chamber of commerce conservatives who preached small government and big business, the Texas Republican Party has been conquered over the last 15 years by a hard-charging, uncompromisingly conservative faction, operating on the vanguard of the nation\u2019s culture wars and driven by a sense of perpetual insurgency.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s endorsements up and down the ballot have only served to accelerate the GOP\u2019s transformation from the party of longtime Sen. John Cornyn to the home base of Attorney General Ken Paxton and his supporters.<\/p>\n

In trying to fend off Paxton\u2019s primary challenge, Cornyn touted his fealty to the president and the MAGA movement and disavowed his own call a few years earlier for the GOP to move on from Trump. The senior senator and his allies poured tens of millions of dollars into eking out a first-place finish in the March 3 primary, and tens of millions more for the runoff, even as most polls had Paxton projected to win. But in the midst of early voting, Trump endorsed Paxton, reviving all those times Cornyn hadn\u2019t been Team Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough,\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cJohn was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the Republican Nomination, and then, the Presidency, itself, both of which were Landslide Victories and, more importantly, gave us the Country that we have today \u2014 THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Trump wind at his back, Paxton won by 28 points, despite being outspent nine to one across the entirety of the campaign. In a trio of congressional runoffs, Trump\u2019s endorsed candidates won by an average 27-point margin.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s endorsement is worth its political weight in gold,\u201d U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill posted on social media Tuesday night. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more powerful in GOP politics, and it\u2019s not even close.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFealty to the president\u201d<\/h3>\n

At Paxton\u2019s victory party Tuesday night, Gill had a message for the cheering, chanting, dancing crowd: \u201cWe are so back.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for a 32-year-old Texas conservative, was it ever really over?<\/p>\n

In 2012, when Gill was 18 years old, Ted Cruz took down then-Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to become the GOP Senate nominee, a seminal victory for the insurgent Tea Party movement that had taken over the party\u2019s grassroots and was on its way to controlling state government.<\/p>\n

Running under the Tea Party banner, Steve Toth was elected to the Texas House that year, unseating a longtime GOP incumbent after being advised by many in the Capitol, he said, not to bother with a challenge. Like Cruz, Toth was wildly outspent yet won by a wide margin. He remembers feeling like that election was a turning point for the party, where voters made clear that \u201crhetoric was not enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should have been a wakeup call for the old guard, that the old way of doing things wasn\u2019t going to be enough to keep them in office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The years since have been marked by a rancorous power struggle for the soul of the Texas Republican Party, where the hardliners, who paint themselves as the perennial underdogs, just keep winning.<\/p>\n

Two years after the Cruz earthquake, Paxton was elected attorney general and Dan Patrick, who says he is a \u201cChristian first, conservative second and Republican third,\u201d became lieutenant governor. Two years after that, with Patrick chairing his Texas campaign, Trump won his first term, creating a powerful new standard-bearer for the party to rally behind \u2014 and forging an alliance that Patrick would use to hasten the Texas GOP\u2019s rightward lurch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s been clear in the recent history in state and national politics is that the main qualification that matters, especially when voters don\u2019t have strong opinions about either candidate, is fealty to the president and association with the MAGA universe,\u201d said Joshua Blank, research director for the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

The new type of MAGA Republican Trump was cultivating \u2014 aggressive, ideological, proudly politically incorrect and, above all, loyal \u2014 looked a lot like the grassroots movement already brewing in Texas. The two blended into one, with Texas delivering for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and Texas Republican voters holding onto an 82% approval rating of the president, even as his ratings wavered nationwide.<\/p>\n

Trump has used that clout to help his allies prevail in primaries. Paxton first chased the president\u2019s endorsement ahead of his 2022 reelection bid, when he secured Trump\u2019s backing over a crowded field of primary challengers that included Land Commissioner George P. Bush. Paxton went on to soundly defeat Bush in a runoff.<\/p>

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The president has also increasingly waded into down-ballot legislative races, in many cases backing candidates aligned with Patrick. At a rally in Conroe that year, Trump openly acknowledged the endorsement pipeline, saying Patrick would call him with requests and he would respond, \u201cAbsolutely, Dan. Whatever you want, Dan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of Trump\u2019s recent maneuvers have helped dramatically reshape the Legislature\u2019s course. In 2024, he endorsed a hard-right challenger to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a bitter rival of Patrick\u2019s. A Republican, Phelan oversaw scores of conservative victories, but also Paxton\u2019s impeachment and a failure to pass Abbott\u2019s coveted school voucher program. Phelan scraped out a win in the runoff, but more than a dozen other House Republicans were ousted that year, many by Trump-endorsed challengers running on explicit pledges to oppose Phelan\u2019s control of the speakership. A battered Phelan eventually abandoned his bid for the gavel.<\/p>\n

Most of the insurgent freshmen also vowed to support Abbott\u2019s voucher push, which had stalled under bipartisan opposition. To get it across the finish line last year, Trump called into a meeting of Texas House Republicans to encourage them to vote for the $1 billion program, and offered up his blanket endorsement for any member who helped pass it. All but two Republicans fell in line.<\/p>\n

Last summer, lawmakers redrew the state\u2019s congressional map to more strongly favor Republicans at the president\u2019s request, even though many, including Abbott, were initially hesitant.<\/p>\n

Toth, who was involved in the grassroots push long before Trump waded into politics, said the president is just accelerating work that was already underway.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a phenomenon of populist politics,\u201d Toth said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t create this movement. He tapped into what was already happening. And the voters are behind what he\u2019s supporting, not just him.\u201d<\/p>\n

MAGA allegiance: not always enough<\/h3>\n

But for Republicans who have diverged even marginally from Trump, the blowback from the MAGA movement has been significant. In March, Toth ousted U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who went against the president by saying he lost the 2020 election and speaking out against the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He was the only House Republican from Texas seeking reelection who wasn\u2019t endorsed by Trump; he lost to Toth, who hewed closely to the president during the campaign, by 15 points.<\/p>\n

In the race to succeed Paxton as attorney general, allegiance to Trump also played a central role, even though he didn\u2019t endorse.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, one of the frontrunners and a dyed-in-the-wool small-government conservative, had clashed with Trump over certain White House priority bills that he felt increased government spending or overstepped the federal government\u2019s proper role. He said Trump engaged in \u201cclearly impeachable conduct\u201d on Jan. 6, and campaigned for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 failed 2024 presidential bid.<\/p>\n

When he entered the race for attorney general, Roy said he and Trump had mended fences, pointing to the president\u2019s remark last summer that Roy is \u201cnot easy, but he\u2019s good.\u201d But Roy\u2019s opponent in the runoff, state Sen. Mayes Middleton, hit Roy hard for the moments in which he wavered from the president. Branding himself \u201cMAGA Mayes,\u201d Middleton spent more than $17 million spreading the word that Trump \u201cdoesn\u2019t trust\u201d Roy, as one of his biggest ad buys said.<\/p>\n

It worked. Despite a surge in funding at the end to circulate his countermessaging, Roy lost to Middleton by 10 points Tuesday night. In a statement, Roy said he had tried to \u201cdo things the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt matters that leaders stand up and say what needs to be said no matter the consequences \u2014 or we stand to lose it all in the pursuit of political expediency,\u201d Roy wrote.<\/p>\n

Even in races where both candidates declared full-on MAGA allegiance, Trump threw his weight around. In two such runoffs, both to decide nominees for newly redrawn GOP strongholds, Trump sided against lawmakers who helped create the districts they were now running for. In the San Antonio-area 35th Congressional District, the president backed political newcomer Carlos De La Cruz, who vowed to be \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s wingman,\u201d over three-term state Rep. John Lujan. Lujan, who was backed by Abbott, lost by 15 points.<\/p>\n

In the new 9th Congressional District, the president endorsed Alex Mealer, an Army veteran and former GOP nominee for Harris County judge. Abbott endorsed Mealer\u2019s opposition, fifth-term state Rep. Briscoe Cain, saying the two \u201cworked side-by-side\u201d on key legislation.<\/p>\n

Cain is one of Texas\u2019 most conservative state legislators, who has been on the front lines of the chamber\u2019s most aggressive pushes on abortion, gun rights, immigration and election integrity. An unwavering Trump supporter, he chairs the hardline House Freedom Caucus and voted to redraw the congressional map.<\/p>\n

He lost to Mealer by 37 points.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: University of Texas at Austin has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune\u2019s journalism. Find a complete\u00a0list of them here.<\/em><\/p>

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This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune.\n

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