Christopher Hooks, a journalist who writes about politics for Texas Monthly and The Texas Observer, explains why Republican members of the United States House of Representatives from the Lone Star State are retiring en masse, and what’s going wrong for the Republican Party in one of the country’s biggest states, which is a must-win for Donald Trump in 2020.
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