{"id":445954,"date":"2026-09-24T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445954\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:34:12","slug":"paxtons-estranged-wife-breaks-silence-on-texas-senate-race-after-biblical-grounds-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445954\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton\u2019s estranged wife breaks silence on Texas Senate race after ‘biblical grounds’ divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

After filing for divorce on \u201cbiblical grounds,\u201d Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton\u2019s <\/a>estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, addressed whether she would support him this November.<\/p>\n

In an address to the Texas Federation of Republican Women themed \u201cthe elephant in the room,\u201d the state senator stressed that \u201cit\u2019s not the people, it\u2019s the seat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have more control over that seat and the future when we control the seat, when it\u2019s still in the family, even if we\u2019re mad at them,\u201d she said as the audience chuckled.<\/p>\n

Video of the address was posted on Facebook on Friday by the DeWitt County, Texas, GOP<\/a> and state Republican Executive Committee member Cheryl Thompson-Draper.<\/p>\n

This is the first time Paxton\u2019s estranged wife has publicly addressed the Texas Senate race since filing for divorce. Democrats are targeting the seat as they seek to win control of the Senate. Democratic candidate James Talarico held a 3-point edge over Paxton, 51% to 48%, in the most recent Fox News poll.<\/a> Fox News has categorized the race as a toss-up.<\/p>\n

The state senator filed for divorce from Paxton i<\/a>n July 2025. In her filing, Paxton said that her husband had \u201ccommitted adultery\u201d and that their marriage had \u201cbecome insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, outside the Supreme Court after the court heard two challenges to Texas\u2019 new abortion law on Nov. 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

In a social media post, she wrote that \u201cafter 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce<\/a> on biblical grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,\u201d she added. \u201cBut in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the first time Paxton\u2019s estranged wife has publicly addressed the Texas Senate race since filing for divorce. Democrats are targeting the seat as they seek to win control of the Senate. Democratic candidate James Talarico held a 3-point edge over Paxton, 51% to 48%, in the most recent Fox News poll. Fox News has categorized the race as a toss-up.<\/p>\n

The state senator filed for divorce from Paxton in July 2025. In her filing, Paxton said that <\/a>her husband had \u201ccommitted adultery\u201d and that their marriage had \u201cbecome insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a social media post, she wrote that \u201cafter 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paxton emphasized \u201cit\u2019s not the people, it\u2019s the seat,\u201d urging voters to support the party by keeping the seat \u201cin the family.\u201d AP Photo\/Alex Brandon<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,\u201d she added. \u201cBut in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

She acknowledged that personal frustrations with a candidate may influence some voters but emphasized that \u201cwhen you vote for the person, the party comes along with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party comes with the person,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo, when you vote for that person because you like this one better or whatever, you just need to understand, they are not alone, like a standalone thing, like a menu item, you get the whole thing, and we have more control when it\u2019s our party. We have more ability to influence when that person is attached to our party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the state senator, Paxton and Talarico for comment.<\/p>\n

After a bruising primary race in which he toppled longtime Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Paxton has struggled to find his footing in the general election against Talarico.<\/p>\n

Angela Paxton filed for divorce from her husband in July 2025, citing \u201cadultery\u201d and \u201cbiblical grounds\u201d after 38 years of marriage. The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Even so, Paxton has projected<\/a> confidence that voters will reject Talarico as a \u201cfake\u201d moderate, pointing to past comments by Talarico, including saying \u201cGod is nonbinary\u201d and saying there are six sexes. Paxton has the support of President Donald Trump and financial backing from the president\u2019s MAGA Inc. political action committee as well as Elon Musk\u2019s America PAC.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox News earlier this month, Talarico walked back his comments about God being nonbinary and there being six sexes, saying his statements \u201cmissed the mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same interview, however, Talarico said, \u201cI am proud of my legislative track record delivering for Texans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI brought Democrats and Republicans together to pass 60 bipartisan bills that lower people\u2019s costs and get the economy back on track,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI\u2019ll put my record up against Ken Paxton\u2019s every day of the week and twice on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After filing for divorce on \u201cbiblical grounds,\u201d Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton\u2019s estranged wife, state Sen. Angela…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2424,13164,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-445954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445954","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=445954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}