A Texas Republican leader has resigned after refusing to back her party’s scandal-plagued Senate nominee just days before the midterms.
Hillary Shepheard, 34, who led the Young Republicans in Tarrant County, told The Atlantic in a story published Saturday that “Ken Paxton has to lose” for the sake of the GOP’s future.
Paxton, the state’s three-term attorney general, was impeached on corruption charges, accused of cheating on his now ex-wife, and charged with securities fraud. The fraud charges were later dropped under an agreement requiring community service and ethics training…