Truth Social post<\/a>, writing that Paxton \u201cis a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\nAfter the post, during a White House press briefing, Vice President JD Vance said Paxton\u2019s loyalty earned him the president\u2019s support.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it really counted, Ken Paxton was there for the country, was there for the president, and that\u2019s why he ultimately earned the president\u2019s endorsement,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n
Jessica Taylor, the Senate and Governors Editor of the Cook Political Report, said Paxton\u2019s support for Trump has been unwavering.<\/p>\n
\u201cKen Paxton has been a loyal foot soldier, even when Trump was at his weakest point, post-January 6th,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n
After the endorsement, Paxton called it \u201cthe most significant endorsement of his lifetime\u201d that has a \u201ctremendous impact\u201d on the race.<\/p>\n
Trump also criticized Cornyn in the post, saying he \u201cwas not supportive when time were tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor said the endorsement could be decisive.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be a major shock to me if Cornyn were to win at this juncture,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n
But later in the day at a campaign event in Lubbock, Cornyn said that the race is not over.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not giving up the fight. I know who gets to choose our senators. And it\u2019s the people of Texas. And there\u2019s no substitute for that,\u201d Cornyn said.<\/p>\n
Cornyn has argued that nominating Paxton could put the reliably Republican seat in jeopardy because of past scandals including an impeachment and accusations of infidelity.<\/p>\n
A recent Texas Southern University poll shows both candidates could face a tough general election against Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarcio.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tie,\u201d said Michael Adams, a political science professor at the university. \u201cAnd certainly that gives a lot of optimism. If you look at those numbers in terms of what do they mean… for the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate on Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-306088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306088","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=306088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}