Glenn Hegar

But because the top has been plugged up for so long, there's been no room for advancement.

We've seen, um, potential successors kind of just give up and leave office or go, you know, like folks like the Texas Comptroller, Glenn Hegar, who was in office until 2014 recently, who was seen as like a potential, uh, governor candidate in the future.

He decides to just not run for reele- reelection and, and go become, you know, the chancellor of, uh, the Texas A&M system.

So, um, I think there is like a, a kind of pretty open field and lack of clear successors within the party, and part of that is fueled by like the ideological civil war between like the Cornyn-style Republicans and the Paxton-style Republicans.