It’s official. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for Senate after defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s runoff election.
The runoff kicked off after no Republican candidate managed to win over 50 percent of the vote in March’s election.
Both campaigns spent the final full day before the runoff flooding the airwaves with their appeals to voters instead of holding public events, according to The Associated Press.
The race appeared to have been decided on May 19 after President Donald Trump endorsed the attorney general, giving him a late boost before the runoff. Up to that point, the president had given no indication as to which candidate he might support. But in a post on Truth Social, Trump explained that Cornyn had been slow to sign on to the president’s agenda, which cost him the endorsement.
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- by: Jeff Charles
- 2026-05-26
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/05/26/ken-paxton-becomes-texas-gops-senate-nomination-after-defeating-john-cornyn-in-runoff-election-n2676700
- 05/27/2026