The Texas GOP purge and other below-the-radar Super Tuesday nuggets

Former president Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott , flanked by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , attend a security briefing in Weslaco, Tex., in 2021. Super Tuesday is a lot — even for those of us whose job it is to cover this stuff for a living.

Tuesday featured a very successful purge of moderate and insufficiently MAGA Republicans that could reverberate well beyond the state’s borders.The basics: Both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton targeted a number of incumbent Republicans who had run afoul of them — Abbott for opposing his school voucher plan, and Paxton for supportingstate House Speaker Dade Phelan

Tally it all up and the scope of the setbacks for intraparty foes of Abbott and Paxton was striking; the governor and the indicted attorney general both sought revenge, and both got a significant measure of it, either defeating or forcing into runoffs more than 1 out of every 5 state House Republicans.

Voters strongly supported rather conservative policies of requiring drug screening for welfare recipients and giving police more surveillance and pursuit powers and less oversight . They also voted to waive a tax for developers who convert office buildings into housing . On these proposals, Mayor London Breed failed to earn support from the liberal board of supervisors before pursuing the ballot measures.

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