{"id":309027,"date":"2026-05-26T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:36:14","slug":"texas-senate-election-live-updates-primary-runoff-between-john-cornyn-and-trump-backed-ken-paxton-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309027\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate election live updates: Primary runoff between John Cornyn and Trump-backed Ken Paxton kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"x\">Today&#8217;s primary runoffs in Texas will put Trump\u2019s endorsement to the test again \u2014 the latest step in a mission to punish some incumbent Republicans Trump has deemed insufficiently loyal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"10\">Texas also has a slew of House primary runoffs on tap today, including one in a battleground district where a secretive group with some Republican links has spent to boost a controversial Democrat. Two Democratic incumbents could also lose House primaries, and a handful of winners in solidly Republican seats are likely to be heading to Congress next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"13\">Polls in most of the state close at 8 p.m. ET, and the full state closes at 9 p.m. ET. Here are the major races to watch.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/john-cornyn-ken-paxton-tuesdsay-texas-primary-republican-democrat-rcna346509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s primary runoffs in Texas will put Trump\u2019s endorsement to the test again \u2014 the latest step in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-309027","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\/309027","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=309027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}