{"id":2338,"date":"2026-05-27T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/armed-with-trumps-last-minute-endorsement-paxton-defeats-cornyn-in-texas-gop-runoff-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:10:00","slug":"armed-with-trumps-last-minute-endorsement-paxton-defeats-cornyn-in-texas-gop-runoff-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/armed-with-trumps-last-minute-endorsement-paxton-defeats-cornyn-in-texas-gop-runoff-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed With Trump\u2019s Last Minute Endorsement, Paxton Defeats Cornyn in Texas GOP Runoff Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<br><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2277314618.jpg?w=804\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday in a Republican runoff election for the Texas Senate seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/elections-2026\/texas-primary-runoff-results-us-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a> called the race for Paxton around 9:00 p.m. ET, after Paxton secured 62.6 percent of the vote compared to Cornyn\u2019s 37.4 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/armed-with-trumps-last-minute-endorsement-paxton-defeats-cornyn-in-texas-gop-runoff-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  talkingpointsmemo.com<\/a>\r\n<br>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican runoff election for the Texas Senate seat, defeating incumbent Senator John Cornyn. The Associated Press announced Paxton&#8217;s victory at 9:00 p.m. ET, with Paxton receiving 62.6 percent of the vote compared to Cornyn&#8217;s 37.4 percent.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday in a Republican runoff election for the Texas Senate seat. The Associated Press called the race for Paxton around 9:00 p.m. ET, after Paxton secured 62.6 percent of the vote compared to Cornyn\u2019s 37.4 percent.\u00a0 Source link talkingpointsmemo.com Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican runoff&hellip;","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1059,1060,933,1061],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-john-cornyn","tag-ken-paxton","tag-news","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}