There are a lot of reasons for this, but in many ways, this race played out as a traditional conservative versus establishment primary, and that's a primary I know a lot about. My race 14 years ago, when I was elected to the Senate, was very much the same dynamic [as the Paxton-Cornyn race]. where I was running against David Dewhurst. He was the sitting Lieutenant governor. He had universal name ID. He had over $200 million. So he wrote a $35 million check to his own campaign. (06:16–06:24)
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