Paxton gave celebratory remarks last night after decisively defeating incumbent Cornyn in their Republican primary runoff. <\/p>\n
Paxton will face Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November.<\/p>\n
Paxton thanked his family, campaign staff and, above all, the president for his endorsement, calling it \u201cthe most powerful force in politics.\u201d He also took a moment to acknowledge Cornyn\u2019s years of service to the state. <\/p>\n
\u201cTonight we sent a Texas-sized message to Washington,\u201d Paxton declared.<\/p>\n
Paxton then pivoted to attacking his general election opponent, whom he described as \u201cthe most extreme radical the Democrats have ever nominated.\u201d He referred to Talarico by a string of mocking nicknames \u2014 \u201cTofu Talarico,\u201d \u201cSix-gender Jimmy.\u201d \u201cJames Tala-freako\u201d \u2014 while hammering him on positions related to gender-affirming care, immigration, energy and religion.<\/p>\n
The state attorney general leaned on his record of suing major tech companies and big pharma, touted his role in establishing what he called the country\u2019s first de-transition clinic at Texas Children\u2019s Hospital, and vowed to support Trump\u2019s America First agenda by confirming constitutionalist judges and passing the Save America Act, an elections overhaul bill, in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Paxton warned that Texas would be \u201cthe radical left\u2019s No. 1 priority\u201d this fall, but declared, \u201cWe are not going to let them take it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paxton gave celebratory remarks last night after decisively defeating incumbent Cornyn in their Republican primary runoff. Paxton will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-310723","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\/310723","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=310723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}