Raw Story: Ted Cruz thrown under bus as GOP senator desperately courts Trump ahead of brutal primary

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is fighting for his political life, according to new reporting from Axios.

The longtime Texas senator “is boasting a 99% voting record with President Trump in a new memo provided first to Axios,” said the report. This comes as Cornyn “and his firebrand primary challenger, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, are battling to win Trump’s coveted endorsement in what is quickly shaping up to be the most dramatic and expensive GOP primary of the cycle.”

“Cornyn’s team is using fellow Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) as a foil, tallying the votes to tout that Cruz has voted against Trump more often than Cornyn,” said the report. “Over Trump’s first term and so far in his second, Cornyn voted in line with Trump 99.2% of the time while Cruz voted with him 96.6% of the time, according to the data, which removed duplicative procedural votes.”

It’s a dog-eat-dog world! Let them devour one another!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-thrown-under-bus-as-gop-senator-desperately-courts-trump-ahead-of-brutal-primary/ar-AA1E4Nyu

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lies-gop-senator-lashes-out-after-stinging-ad-hits-airwaves-in-trump-s-backyard/ar-AA1E13WE

Alternet: ‘Looking a lot worse’: Republicans at a loss trying to sell Trump’s tax plan to voters

Republicans in Congress are running into a brick wall when trying to pitch a 10-year extension of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts to their constituents back home.

That’s according to a Friday article in Politico, which reported that senators are coming up short when trying to convince voters of the benefits of tax cuts that are expected to blow a $4.6 trillion hole in the budget. Senate Republicans running for reelection in next year’s midterms are particularly concerned about how to win over home state voters to another decade of tax cuts that have been widely criticized as being “skewed to the rich.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/looking-a-lot-worse-republicans-at-a-loss-trying-to-sell-trump-s-tax-plan-to-voters/ar-AA1E4xNy