{"id":310199,"date":"2026-05-27T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:05:07","slug":"texas-u-s-senate-republican-runoff-live-election-results-2026-cornyn-vs-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310199\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas U.S. Senate Republican Runoff Live Election Results 2026: Cornyn vs. Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eln-yd7g0t\">In the Republican race to replace outgoing Attorney General Ken Paxton, Mayes Middleton, a state senator, has a 12-point lead over Representative Chip Roy, with nearly 60 percent of the vote in. That is after Middleton, an oil executive, contributed more than $17 million of his own money to his campaign. To counter that spending, Alex Fairly, a Texas businessman, donated more than $6 million to Roy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Republican race to replace outgoing Attorney General Ken Paxton, Mayes Middleton, a state senator, has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,61240,13164,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-310199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-elections","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-senate","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310199","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=310199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}