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The day's only wordless post: a poll graphic showing Ken Paxton at 56.8% and John Cornyn at 35.4% in the Texas Republican Senate primary, set against a Texas flag and sunset backdrop. It lands sixth among six posts that day, after a demand to pass the Save America Act, a jab at Colbert's firing, an account of the Anti-Weaponization Fund settlement, an explanation for missing Don Jr.'s engagement announcement, and Tulsi Gabbard's departure notice. Where the other five carry his own sentences, this one carries none -- the behavior on offer is the selection of a bar chart that flatters one candidate in an intraparty contest over the sitting senior senator from the second-largest Republican state, without a caption committing him to either name. Publishing a lopsided internal poll in a window otherwise dominated by Comey's arraignment, the Castro indictment and the IRS settlement reads as attention paid to a primary he does not otherwise mention in the provided record -- a low-cost way to signal which way a race is breaking without spending words on an endorsement. That fits an interest in shaping outcomes from a distance rather than any disclosed grievance against Cornyn; nothing in the image or the day's other posts names him as a target. The 56.8%/35.4% figures are the poll's assertion, not a claim Trump makes in his own words, and no pollster or date accompanies the graphic, so the underlying numbers are not independently checked here.

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Overall Veracity: 50%