\u201cJohn was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the Republican Nomination, and then, the Presidency, itself, both of which were Landslide Victories,\u201d Trump explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neither Paxton nor Cornyn received more than 50% of the vote during the state\u2019s Republican primary in March, which triggered a runoff between the two candidates. Trump\u2019s endorsement comes just a week before the May 26 runoff election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the first round of the primary, Cornyn won<\/a> 42% of the vote while Paxton won 40.5%. According to a poll<\/a> conducted by Hobby School of Public Affairs at University of Houston between April 28 and May 1, Paxton was then leading Cornyn by 3% in the runoff\u2014though that edge was nearly within the poll’s 2.83% margin of error, underscoring how close the race has been.<\/p>\n Even before the runoff, the Texas primary had become the most expensive primary in U.S. history, with more than $125 million spent on advertising on candidates on both sides of the party, according to media tracking firm AdImpact<\/a>. Recent numbers from ad-tracking firm AdImpact Politics show that Cornyn, the four-term senator, has outspent<\/a> Paxton more than four to one on advertising during the runoff election alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJohn was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31095,68679,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-300212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-midterm-elections","tag-news-desk","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300212","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=300212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}