Ken Paxton is definitely favored to win the primary after this, but he is obviously a terrible candidate for the general. He's still likely to win, but he did have the worst statewide performance of any candidate besides Cruz in 2018.

Not if Gohmert makes the runoff, which I wouldn't bet against.

Yeah, I guess "happy" is relative. He went from "zero chance" to "a chance".

while runoffs still exist and all, there's always some potential if you can make a runoff

I haven't been seeing too many ads for the gubernatorial race (Abbott started airing some soon after his official announcement, although I don't see them as much anymore), but there's been a constant back-and-forth on air between Paxton and Gohmert. Gohmert has talked about Paxton being corrupt and Paxton fired back by claiming that Gohmert betrayed East Texas by supporting Obama's liberal agenda (lol). I don't know what the support looks like on the ground here, but my guess is that this will be his strongest region, but still probably won't be enough to carry a county. Maybe Smith, and only then it'll probably be with a small margin.

I wanna know how Hikikomori endorsed the more moderate / establishment type.

we'll forget this election by November but there's an outside case for Gohmert for CPOTY mostly for giving up a safe Congressional seat to finish last in a race for Attorney General

Whelp, my prediction that Gohmert wouldn't carry a county was *very* wrong. Guzman also did better than I was expecting.

I wonder if Bush will be able to pull out a win in the runoff.

Paxton's enthusiasm for trolling transgender activism, has put him back into my good graces.