{"id":310882,"date":"2026-05-27T14:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:33:23","slug":"texas-water-plan-does-not-consider-data-center-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310882\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas water plan does not consider data center growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a> defeated four-term Sen. John Cornyn<\/a> on Tuesday, May 26, in a massively expensive, drawn-out U.S. Senate primary<\/a> race.<\/p>\n

Paxton was endorsed by President Donald Trump last week, and his victory showcased the president\u2019s power over his party as he seeks to punish Republicans he sees as insufficiently loyal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paxton will run against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

Democrats are hopeful that their nominee, state Rep. James Talarico, has a rare opportunity to win a statewide race in Texas \u2014 and help the party retake control of the Senate \u2014 with Paxton as his opponent.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s runoffs also decided Democratic U.S. House nominees<\/a> for districts in Dallas and Houston that overwhelmingly support Democrats, and a San Antonio-area seat the party wants to flip.<\/p>\n

“I will be the Democrats\u2019 No. 1 target”
In Austin on Tuesday night, Cornyn gave a short concession speech tinged with emotion to a room of only reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight we\u2019ve come up short,\u201d Cornyn said, adding that he\u2019d support Paxton in the general election. \u201cI\u2019ve always supported the Republican ticket, and I intend to do so again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cornyn said in 2023 as Trump was running to return to the White House that his time \u201chas passed him by,” a statement that came back to bite him. He also was an early critic of Trump\u2019s plan for a border wall<\/a> between the U.S. and Mexico \u2014 a project he now supports.<\/p>\n

Cornyn had the backing of Senate GOP leaders who said he would be the stronger general election candidate against Talarico, which was also the senator’s argument to voters before Tuesday.<\/p>\n

That’s not lost on Paxton, who said in his speech that \u201cwithout a shadow of a doubt, I will be the Democrats\u2019 No. 1 target in November.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talarico’s campaign hit back Tuesday night on the social platform X, highlighting what they \u2014 and some Republicans \u2014 see as Paxton’s weakness, including an FBI investigation and impeachment for corruption in which he was later acquitted.<\/p>\n

The primary was long and costly
Cornyn led Paxton in the March 3 primary<\/a> but failed to win a majority. That was after Cornyn and his supporters waged a monthslong advertising campaign, mostly attacking Paxton over ethical and personal questions.<\/p>\n

The two-term attorney general was acquitted on corruption charges in a 2023 impeachment trial<\/a>, where allegations of extramarital affairs surfaced. Paxton\u2019s wife filed for divorce last year, citing \u201cbiblical grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

It gave Cornyn fodder for an ad campaign that, along with allied groups, spent roughly $109 million between the primary and runoff elections.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the primary, Trump promised to endorse but didn\u2019t act until after early voting began last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cKen Paxton has gone through a lot, in many cases, very unfairly, but he is a fighter, and knows how to win,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post endorsing him.<\/p>\n

Democrats choose US House nominees
Former Rep. Colin Allred beat U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson in the Dallas-area 33rd District’s Democratic primary runoff. Johnson was elected to the seat in 2024, the year Allred lost his U.S. Senate challenge to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Allred was running for Senate again this cycle but dropped his bid<\/a> and instead sought a return to the House.<\/p>\n

Newly elected Rep. Christian Menefee<\/a> defeated veteran Rep. Al Green in Texas’ 18th District, dispatching a longtime House incumbent who was one of Trump’s most outspoken critics. The Republican-led Texas Legislature redrew the district when it approved a new House map last year. The new map led to a runoff between incumbents and marks the end of a dizzying series of elections<\/a> in the Houston area.<\/p>\n

Near San Antonio, Johnny Garcia won the Democratic primary for Texas\u2019 35th District against against Maureen Galindo, a candidate who has expressed anti-Zionist views that have led to accusations of antisemitism<\/a>. While Texas lawmakers redrew the district to help Republicans, Democrats view it as within reach and didn’t want Galindo’s past comments to impede them.<\/p>\n

Garcia will face Republican Carlos De La Cruz, who defeated John Lujan in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday, May 26, in a massively expensive,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3436,132,134,133,14168,4136,3621,410,15710],"class_list":["post-310882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ecology","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-water","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310882","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=310882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}