Timothy Birdnow

In yet more proof you don't mess with Donald J. Trump the very MAGA Congressman Chip Roy lost his bid to become Texas Attorney General to a very wealthy MAGA man - Texas state senator Mayes Middleton - in the Republican primary. Despite Roy's name recognition and his experience as a lawyer the vastly wealthier Middleton hit Roy on disloyalty to Trump and that turned the tide.

Middleton crushed Roy by pointing out that Chip called for Trump's impeachment after J6 and had resisted the President on any number of occasions, often more vociferously than he did Democrats. Middleton painted Roy as disloyal and it stuck.

Now he'll have to face off against a Democrat opponent. He's got the money but not the name recognition and has no experience doing anything like this. It's going to be a tough sell.

And I largely like Chip Roy, despite some of his mistakes. He is clearly on the right side of things. We need him in important government positions.

But this shows Donald Trump is a force of nature and you buck him at your peril.

Middleton spent a whopping $17 million dollars of his own money - money he made as head of an oil and gas company he founded - to win this race.

President Trump did not endorse any candidate in this race. But he is still the big winner, as if he had. Middleton won because he defended the President and used Chip Roy's own words against Trump to take him down.

Don't mess with Donald J. Trump!

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