{"id":310189,"date":"2026-05-27T03:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:52:16","slug":"sen-john-cornyn-concedes-texas-gop-primary-runoff-loss-to-ag-ken-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310189\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Cornyn concedes Texas GOP primary runoff loss to AG Ken Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 After 24 years in the U.S. Senate and 18 straight campaign wins, Sen. John Cornyn announced he has <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/nation-world\/texas-ag-ken-paxton-wins-gop-runoff-for-us-senate-ousting-longtime-sen-john-cornyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lost the Republican primary runoff election to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said he had \u201cfought the good fight, finished the race, and kept the faith\u201d as he conceded. <\/p>\n<p>The mood inside the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Austin was tense, as a room full of only reporters waited quietly for his announcement. <\/p>\n<p>The runoff followed months of public battling between Cornyn and Paxton on social media. Cornyn said 8% of registered voters cast ballots in the race and that roughly 60% sided with Paxton. Moments before Cornyn&#8217;s announcement, many Texas officials, such as Governor Greg Abbott, congratulated Paxton for his victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/nation-world\/texas-ag-ken-paxton-wins-gop-runoff-for-us-senate-ousting-longtime-sen-john-cornyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| Texas AG Ken Paxton wins GOP runoff for US Senate, ousting longtime Sen. John Cornyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result came a week after President Donald Trump officially endorsed Paxton as the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn did not mention Paxton in his speech, but he thanked his family, his staff, and Texans for his time as senator.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn also quoted: \u201cIt&#8217;s not the critic that counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could&#8217;ve done better. The credit belongs to the man who&#8217;s actually, in the arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said that in his final seven months, he plans to continue his work to \u201cmake this nation a better place for all Texans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his announcement, Cornyn did not answer questions and said he would have more to say later before walking out of the room.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>In November, Paxton will face Democratic nominee James Talarico for the U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 After 24 years in the U.S. Senate and 18 straight campaign wins, Sen. John Cornyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-310189","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\/310189","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=310189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}