{"id":45,"date":"2026-05-27T04:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:21:58","slug":"trump-scores-win-as-scandal-plagued-paxton-ousts-john-cornyn-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Trump Scores Win as Scandal-Plagued Paxton Ousts John Cornyn in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAfter months of intense party infighting and a last-second endorsement by Donald Trump, Texas Republicans have selected Ken Paxton as their candidate in November\u2019s Senate race. <em>The Associated Press<\/em> announced the victory on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=43\">Kyle Busch, Two-Time Nascar Cup Series Champion, Dead at 41<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tPaxton will face off against Democratic candidate James Talarico, a Texas state House representative, former schoolteacher, and Presbyterian seminarian who has built his campaign on a platform of Christian progressivism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a statement issued on social media, Talarico thanked Cornyn for his years of service in the Senate, and sent a message to his voters:  \u201cyou have a place in our campaign.\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t agree on everything, but we both still believe in public service,\u201d Talarico wrote of the senator, who will remain in office through the next Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a separate video shared to X, Talarico called Paxton \u201cthe most corrupt politician in America\u201d and declared, \u201cIt\u2019s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton.\u201d <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cFor 50 years, mega donors and their puppet politicians, like Ken Paxton, have stolen from us with their bribes, their bailouts, and their billionaire tax breaks,\u201d Talarico continued. \u201cIf we, the People, can come together to defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system. We can start unrigging this economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile Democrats haven\u2019t won a statewide elected office in Texas in over three decades, the state\u2019s Republican dynasty looks vulnerable this election cycle. Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown has made critiquing the federal handling of border security \u2014 a key issue for the state GOP \u2014 a no-go zone for Republicans. At the same time, the president\u2019s hardline crackdown on immigration has cratered Trump and Republicans\u2019 support among Hispanic voters in the state, a critical constituency in his 2024 reelection victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith the president\u2019s approval rating seemingly in freefall amid the war in Iran and a series of corruption scandals, the MAGA-aligned Texas Republican machine may be staring down the barrel of a trouncing in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tLast week, with early voting already underway in the critical runoff election, President Trump put his thumb on the scales, endorsing Paxton over Cornyn in a lengthy Truth Social post. Cornyn, a mainstay in the Senate for over 20 years, was dismissed as a \u201cgood man,\u201d who was \u201cnot supportive\u201d enough of Trump \u201cwhen times were tough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=41\">Former Prince Andrew Investigation Expands to Sexual Misconduct Allegations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tPaxton \u2014 the politically rabid state attorney general whose history of scandal and corruption has alienated members of his own party \u2014 was described by the president as \u201ca true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas,\u201d and a \u201cStrong Supporter of TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER and, very importantly, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,\u201d Trump\u2019s legislative attempt at requiring documentary proof of citizenship for all voter registrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt didn\u2019t matter to the president that Paxton was underperforming when compared to Cornyn in a matchup against Talarico, or that the national Republican establishment is warning that rehabbing Paxton\u2019s image for skeptical GOP voters, moderates, and independents could cost millions in what is already the most expensive Senate privacy in the nation\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPaxton, who has served as the state\u2019s attorney general since 2015, has had a personal trajectory and political career that is unnervingly comparable to Trump\u2019s. Affairs and a tabloid divorce, allegations of corruption and misuse of office, and even an impeachment trial. Unlike Trump, however, Paxton was impeached by members of his own party on 20 articles related to abuse of office, the acceptance of bribes, making false statements to the State Securities Board, and violating his oath of office \u2014 to name a few.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe was impeached by the Texas House \u2014 including by 60 Republican members \u2014 but acquitted in his Senate trial amid a rift between the party fomented by Paxton\u2019s national supporters, including Trump, White House deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhy would the national Republican party jump to the defence of a state attorney general tried by his own party? Paxton was one of the lead state-level officials pushing to help Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election, masterminding the <em>Texas v. Pennsylvania <\/em>lawsuit, which attempted to have the Supreme Court throw out the voting results of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was ultimately unsuccessful, but Paxton has become an expert at weaponizing Texas\u2019 legal system to further the MAGA movement\u2019s culture war agenda.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tPaxton has a taken a hardline approach to the enforcement of Texas\u2019 near-total abortion ban, targeted left-leaning nonprofits, sued Texas cities that decriminalized marijuana, opposed legislation supporting LGBTQ+ individuals, and endorsed anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ+ state policies, and supported legal efforts to politically and racially gerrymander the state.\u00a0<br \/>He\u2019s as Trumpian as they come, but Republican pollsters in Texas say that the base\u2019s most committed voters are lagging in their midterm enthusiasm.\u00a0 The GOP\u2019s prospects may worsen as the economic fallout of Trump\u2019s war with Iran continues to creep into the car-happy, trade and transportation giant, the uncritical support Paxton has given the president may become a liability, and the Senate majority could hang in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=39\">NASCAR Champion Kyle Busch\u2019s Cause of Death Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republicans have selected Ken Paxton as their candidate in November\u2019s Senate race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-republican-primaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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