{"id":287,"date":"2026-05-26T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:43:25","slug":"cornyn-fights-for-political-life-against-trump-endorsed-paxton-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn fights for political life against Trump-endorsed Paxton in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Even the elections are bigger in Texas.<\/div><div>Voters will choose their nominee for U.S. Senate on Tuesday in a race that could help decide control of the chamber and may \u200bbecome one of the most expensive in history.<\/div><div>John Cornyn, a 74-year-old four-term senator backed by Republican leadership, is locked in the fight of his political \u200clife against Ken Paxton, a 63-year-old, scandal-plagued attorney general who won President Donald Trump&#8217;s endorsement last week.<\/div><div>Paxton has led Cornyn in most public opinion polls, putting him on a collision course to face the Democratic nominee &#8211; 37-year-old state Representative James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and leading fundraiser whose campaign has appealed to independent and moderate voters.<\/div><div>Senate Republicans&#8217; campaign arm warned in an internal memo last year that a Paxton nomination &#8220;would hand \u200bDemocrats an opening to flip Texas and cause Republicans to divert hundreds of millions of dollars that would otherwise be spent winning key battlegrounds.&#8221;<\/div><div>Republicans hold a 53-47 \u200bmajority in the Senate over Democrats, who would need to net four seats in this November&#8217;s election to take control of the chamber. Democrats are on \u2060defense in two states Trump won in 2024 &#8211; Georgia and Michigan &#8211; but could win the chamber by holding those two seats and flipping North Carolina, Maine, Ohio and Alaska.<\/div><div>A competitive \u200brace in Texas, where no Democrat has won statewide since 1994, would expand the party&#8217;s path to a majority and potentially force Republicans to redirect investments from more competitive battlegrounds \u200bto protect their nominee in a state Trump carried by nearly 14 percentage points in 2024.<\/div><div>In backing Paxton a week from the runoff, Trump chose loyalty over electability as he continues to flex his iron grip over Republican voters. This month, challengers backed by him ousted intraparty opponents including Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky.<\/div><div>&#8220;Donald Trump just endorsed a man who was impeached by his own party, indicted for felony \u200bfraud, reported to the FBI by his own staff, ordered to pay $6.6 million to the whistleblowers he tried to destroy, and whose wife is divorcing him on biblical grounds,&#8221; \u200bsaid Lauren French, a spokesperson for Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC. Paxton has denied any wrongdoing.<\/div><h2>LOYALTY TRUMPS ELECTABILITY<\/h2><div>The runoff winner will face Talarico, who got a three-month head start on his general \u200celection campaign \u2060after defeating U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett on March 3.<\/div><div>Talarico&#8217;s initial lead in the opinion polls has evaporated, with the most recent survey showing the race in a dead heat regardless of whether he is competing against Cornyn or Paxton, with 8% of likely voters undecided.<\/div><div>In a three-way primary in March, Cornyn had a slim lead over Paxton and the two then proceeded to the May runoff.<\/div><div>Political experts say Tea Party and MAGA voters are the Republicans most likely to turn out in primaries and runoffs, an electorate that favors Paxton.<\/div><div>Trump contrasted Paxton&#8217;s &#8220;extreme&#8221; loyalty with \u200bCornyn&#8217;s wavering support. But Cornyn said he was \u200bputting his trust in Republican voters, \u2060who will &#8220;decide if they want a strong nominee to help our GOP candidates down ballot and defeat Talarico in November, or a weak nominee who jeopardizes everything we care about.&#8221;<\/div><div>Cornyn&#8217;s campaign has attacked Paxton&#8217;s character from the beginning. The onslaught of attacks on &#8220;Crooked Ken&#8221; includes \u200ba dating game that allows users to swipe on Paxton&#8217;s alleged mistresses.<\/div><div>Paxton challenged Cornyn to stop the negative ads &#8220;for the good \u200bof our party.&#8221;<\/div><div>&#8220;We have already \u2060changed our TV ad traffic &#8230; to ensure our campaign ends on a positive note (so) that we can focus on beating the leftist lunatic in the fall,&#8221; Paxton wrote on X last week.<\/div><h2>HOUSE RUNOFFS IN SEVERAL DISTRICTS<\/h2><div>Voters across the state will also choose their nominees in more than a dozen congressional districts. Both parties&#8217; nominees will be chosen in the San Antonio-area 35th district, \u2060an open seat \u200bDemocrats are hoping to flip.<\/div><div>Republicans will choose between state Representative John Lujan and U.S. Air Force veteran Carlos \u200bDe La Cruz.<\/div><div>Democrats&#8217; preferred candidate is Johnny Garcia, a public information officer for Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.<\/div><div>Democrats have accused Republicans of meddling in their primary through a Republican-aligned political committee called Lead Left PAC that has \u200bspent funds on boosting Garcia&#8217;s opponent, Maureen Galindo, a fringe candidate who has been widely condemned for antisemitic comments.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Nolan D. 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