The Ken Paxton campaign wasted no time launching an ad playing up his coveted endorsement from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The ad released Wednesday, one day after the announcement, describes Paxton as \u201cTrump-endorsed and Texas first.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Paxton delighted a crowd in Katy when he talked about it Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid ya\u2019ll notice the endorsement yesterday?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
The reply was a loud, boisterous cheer.<\/p>\n
The same day, four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn temporarily left the campaign trail.<\/p>\n
His team said he was needed in Washington to vote on a bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll return to Texas for rallies in Houston and Corpus Christi Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n
While on Capitol Hill, a CNN correspondent asked Cornyn if he made the wrong calculation during his campaign, talking up his Trump ties.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s pretty obvious it didn\u2019t work,\u201d Cornyn said. \u201cBut, you know, you tell me how the President makes his decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cornyn\u2019s team also launched a new ad Wednesday attacking Paxton\u2019s character.<\/p>\n
The ad reiterates their claim that national Democrats are ready to spend significant money to try to defeat Paxton if he’s the Republican nominee in Texas.<\/p>\n
At Paxton\u2019s Katy rally, he reminded voters turnout will be key in Tuesday\u2019s runoff.<\/p>\n
But he is already talking about November, starting out the rally by trying to come up with nicknames for James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate who was in Dallas Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel it in my bones that we\u2019re going to flip this Senate seat, take back Texas, take back our nation,\u201d Talarico said.<\/p>\n
But he did not take questions about the Trump endorsement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ken Paxton campaign wasted no time launching an ad playing up his coveted endorsement from President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3309,1967,3311,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-302664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-john-cornyn","tag-ken-paxton","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302664","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=302664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}