{"id":310427,"date":"2026-05-27T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:22:54","slug":"paxton-defeats-cornyn-in-texas-it-may-cost-trump-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310427\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton Defeats Cornyn in Texas. It May Cost Trump the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Trump did not care. He liked that Paxton used his office of Attorney General to troll Democrats, and that his style of politics at times flirted with burn-it-down nihilism. Cornyn, but contrast, is a gentleman who works with Democrats where he can and an institutionalist who refused to heed Trump\u2019s call to end the Senate tradition of the filibuster. It came to style over substance, personality over policy. If you\u2019re not wearing a red MAGA hat, you\u2019ve gotta\u2019 go.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Cornyn, who was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/02\/27\/john-cornyn-texas-senate-primary-gop-paxton-00802121\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">contender<\/a> to lead the Senate Republicans just two years ago, was seen as a safe candidate heading into his re-election bid. Republicans\u2014both in the Senate and back in Texas\u2014warned that the state\u2019s epic winning streak would be threatened with Paxton as the nominee given the long, long history of unseemly allegations against him involving corruption, marital infidelity, abuse of power, securities fraud, and bribery\u2014so much of a litany that the Republican-controlled Texas state House voted to impeach him in 2023. (He was acquitted by the Republican-controlled state Senate.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump did not care. He liked that Paxton used his office of Attorney General to troll Democrats, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,65157],"class_list":["post-310427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-d-c-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310427","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=310427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}