Trump’s dilemma in Texas | CNN Politics

It’s been two days since President Donald Trump said he would not only endorse a candidate in the Texas primary runoff between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton, but that he would also try to get the other candidate to bow out. Trump said on Friday that he’ll make a “decision fairly shortly,” but suggested he first wants to get some clarity on voter ID legislation he favors – and where the candidates stand on it. “I feel very strongly that we have to have the full and complete SAVE America Act, OK? I want the SAVE America Act. It is more important than everything else we’re working on other than the war,” Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash in a brief phone interview. So it appears we’re in a bit of a holding pattern. Which might not be too surprising. Because even as Trump’s endorsement is often the be-all, end-all in GOP primaries, this situation is not an easy one for him. The conventional wisdom – and the most logical outcome – would seem to be that Trump will endorse Cornyn ahead of the May 26 runoff. It would be shocking for an incumbent president to endorse against an incumbent senator from his own party, especially given Cornyn is backe