{"id":469569,"date":"2026-10-18T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469569\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:18:08","slug":"in-texas-senate-race-ted-cruz-tries-to-push-ken-paxton-across-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469569\/","title":{"rendered":"In Texas Senate race, Ted Cruz tries to push Ken Paxton across the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4OE646K3WVFATDTKD4O2LPUTCE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">THE WOODLANDS, Texas \u2014 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not up for election this year, but he is campaigning across his home state as though he is. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BSAS2C7XUZGMHIAFEWCMZMQGB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Rather than pitching himself, Cruz is making a spirited case for the Republican Senate bid of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cruz, a conservative firebrand, is trying to rally the party\u2019s base in a year where Republicans fear many of their voters will stay home. He has poured money into supporting Paxton, introduced the attorney general to his large network of donors and even gave him sartorial advice after President Donald Trump mocked the Paxton\u2019s appearance despite having endorsed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE WOODLANDS, Texas \u2014 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not up for election this year, but he is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-469569","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\/469569","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=469569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}