Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn is sputtering financially, with major donors who previously bankrolled his campaigns now sitting on the sidelines — a striking display of the deep fracture within the Republican Party between its business-oriented establishment and its hard-right MAGA base, writes the New York Times' Lauren McGaughy.

According to her analysis, Paxton has fallen dramatically short of his fundraising goals. He claimed last year