U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt wants Republican voters who may be unfamiliar with him to know that he’s much more like Attorney General Ken Paxton than he is like incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
The long-shot Republican faces off against the two political giants this March for the U.S. Senate primary. Publicly he’s presenting himself as a younger Paxton with a longer political runway. Privately, his backers are noting he also lacks Paxton’s scandals and baggage.
“Me getting in this race ensures that you’re going to have a conservative warrior [in the Senate],” Hunt said in an interview. “Ken Paxton has been just that. The only thing that I think will be really different, quite frankly, is our age.”
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