{"id":309113,"date":"2026-05-26T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309113\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:18:06","slug":"in-texas-cornyn-and-paxtons-senate-primary-runoff-tests-trumps-grip-on-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309113\/","title":{"rendered":"In Texas, Cornyn and Paxton&#8217;s Senate primary runoff tests Trump&#8217;s grip on GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B4AF772FTBFEHL3BQUMGRXLYIQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Senate Republicans are bracing for an expensive general election in Texas as the state\u2019s scandal-plagued attorney general positions himself to push out four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"37DU5GSRKNFR5MIQDWCJR2FKXQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Cornyn faces Ken Paxton in a primary runoff Tuesday, with public polling favoring Paxton. Senate Republicans have fervently backed Cornyn in the primary, saying he would be easier to defend in a general election against the Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans are bracing for an expensive general election in Texas as the state\u2019s scandal-plagued attorney general positions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-309113","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\/309113","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=309113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}