{"id":246292,"date":"2026-04-12T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:50:07","slug":"texas-lt-governor-warns-democrats-could-win-u-s-senate-seat-if-republicans-arent-unified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246292\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Lt. Governor warns Democrats could win U.S. Senate seat if Republicans aren&#8217;t unified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has sounded the alarm for the Texas GOP this fall. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHe warned Republicans that if they don&#8217;t unite behind their winning nominee for U.S. Senate this November, either Senator John Cornyn or Attorney General Ken Paxton, they risk handing the seat over to Democrat James Talarico. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPatrick voiced his concerns last week before the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank in Austin.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has sounded the alarm for the Texas GOP this fall. &#13; &#13; He warned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-246292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}