{"id":530903,"date":"2026-03-18T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530903\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:57:06","slug":"a-withheld-endorsement-leaves-both-cornyn-and-paxton-courting-trump-in-texas-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530903\/","title":{"rendered":"A withheld endorsement leaves both Cornyn and Paxton courting Trump in Texas primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RLPS3CGHAFEY7GG4EKKZD7XRQY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sen. John Cornyn and his Texas Republican primary challenger are busy courting a voter who doesn\u2019t live in their state.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KXPFJEZPBFBQZDR42CBXOXTWBE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who are locked in a runoff, are vying for the endorsement of President Donald Trump. Two weeks ago, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/04\/cornyn-trump-paxton-talarico-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">promised to make his pick known soon<\/a>, but he so far has withheld his support for either candidate in one of the most expensive and closely watched primaries of the cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. John Cornyn and his Texas Republican primary challenger are busy courting a voter who doesn\u2019t live in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-530903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}