For the past three decades, since the mid 1990s, the state of Texas has, without any sense of virtue, elected the most obnoxious Republican politicians imaginable to high public offices.
They elected Ken Paxton to multiple terms as state Attorney General, and he has been engaged in horrendous corruption and scandals, on a constant basis, including being impeached by the Texas House, although saved from conviction by the Texas Senate.
His wife is in the process of divorce, as Paxton has cheated on her a multitude of times over the years, and she has had enough.
Paxton is also obnoxious as a person, totally uncaring and lacking any ethics, morals, or scruples.
Now, he is being contested for the US Senate seat by Democratic State Representative James Talarico, who is perceived by tens of millions nationally, and also in Texas, as a specially gifted, talented, kind individual, who represents change, ethics, morals, and decency.
Meanwhile, while Donald Trump endorsed Paxton over sitting Republican Senator John Cornyn in the primary, and has campaigned multiple times in the past few weeks for Cornyn, he has also mocked Paxton as ugly, and said he is not the best public figure around.
In addition to Paxton, Texas three term Governor, Greg Abbott, is a horrendous, corrupt governor, who faces a tough race against Gina Hinojosa, a state representative since 2017, who comes across as genuine, kind hearted, and principled, and the polls indicate a close race, with a good possiblity of Abbott losing office.
And then, there is Senator Ted Cruz, in his third term in the US Senate, who the late Senator Lindsey Graham called the most hated Senator by fellow Senators of both parties, who if Cruz were to pass on, no one in the Senate would mourn his loss.
Clearly, that may be more “tongue in cheek”, but it is well known that Cruz is not good at making friends, and has a highly abrasive personality toward fellow Senators on either side of the aisle.
But Donald Trump, in his campaigning in Texas for Paxton and Abbott, has said he would name Cruz to any vacancy on the Supreme Court, and mentioned that other Senators did not like Cruz, but that all Republicans would unanimously vote for him, and that Democrats would not fight his nomination, as they would wish to remove him from the Senate.
That is clearly a lie on the part of Trump, as even if most Democrats do not personally like Cruz, they would not support his elevation to the Supreme Court, because his vote would likely be similar to Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, the two most right wing members of the Court, who are much despised by the majority of Americans who follow Court decisions.
So the top Texas politicians are truly memorable in highly negative terms, unmatched in any other state.