The contest for control of the Republican Party of Texas has attracted three candidates, including current chair Cathie Adams. But this much is clear: Nobody’s conservative bonafides are at issue.

The race for state GOP chair is conducted largely out of the public eye, through phone calls and at meetings of party elders, and involves wooing some 14,000 delegates across Texas. With redistricting on the horizon and a governor’s race in November, the Republican faithful will gather in June in Dallas at their state convention to select who will lead the party out of debt and confront ...

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