The saying that everything is bigger in Texas may now apply to a bitter intraparty brawl following Tuesday night’s primary election.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton separately sought revenge on incumbent Republicans they viewed as disloyal, at times working against one another in an attempt to gain control over the state’s Republican Party.

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