{"id":441653,"date":"2026-09-20T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441653\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:02:08","slug":"ken-paxton-visits-lubbock-on-u-s-senate-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441653\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton visits Lubbock on U.S. Senate campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton made a campaign stop in Lubbock on Saturday, marking his second visit to the Hub City during his bid for Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Paxton previously visited Lubbock in May during his Republican primary runoff against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Backed by an 11th-hour endorsement from former President Donald Trump just a week before Election Day, Paxton secured the nomination with nearly 64% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heading into the November general election, Paxton is pitching an \u201cAmerica First\u201d platform centered on lower living costs and economic relief for Texans, while pledging to carry forward Trump\u2019s policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI met with ranchers, business owners, law enforcement officers, parents, faith leaders, and hardworking Texans from every corner of our state, and I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019ve learned,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cThe best part of our state is not just its scenery or even its great Texas BBQ \u2014 those are amazing, but it\u2019s the people of Texas. It\u2019s you.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton made a campaign stop in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5058,1967,168,170,169,4479,6301,152817],"class_list":["post-441653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-campaign","tag-ken-paxton","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-attorney-general","tag-tour","tag-us-senate-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441653","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=441653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}