Paul Olson was quick to say why he voted for Paxton: \u201cHe\u2019s conservative and backed by Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 72-year-old retired finance executive elaborated a little, saying, \u201cI just think he represents more of what middle-class America needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olson said he was perturbed that Cornyn, the incumbent, had been airing ads projecting himself as a Trump devotee despite Trump\u2019s endorsement of Paxton.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe claims he\u2019s got Trump\u2019s backing, and he most certainly doesn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Olson was among a steady stream of voters arriving over the noon hour at the Haggard Library in Plano.<\/p>\n
Confident in his choice, Olson still expressed some worry that some conservatives might be less inclined to vote in November if costs for daily expenses, most notably fuel, remain elevated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they end this war soon, then good. Energy drives the cost of everything, and prices will settle,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they have to end this war quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Olson was quick to say why he voted for Paxton: \u201cHe\u2019s conservative and backed by Trump.\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2137,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-309962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-2026-elections","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309962","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=309962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}