The National Republican Senate Committee is calling on Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) to stop stoking speculation that he could run for Senate and back Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) upcoming reelection bid in a new memo to Hunt’s donors obtained exclusively by The Hill.

The committee refers to Hunt’s flirtation with a potential Senate bid in the Lone Star State as “a vanity project,” warning that his entrance into the GOP primary for the seat could “dilute” the party’s resources and ultimately cost the party control of the Upper Chamber.

The memo cites six separate polls conducted in August to demonstrate Cornyn trails Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) by an average of four points, arguing the race between the two Republicans is “a statistical tie.”

“The deficit is gone, but Wesley Hunt

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