‘Hard To Run From Prison’: Nasty Texas Feud Between Senator Cornyn and Ken Paxton Escalates

Earlier this month Paxton attacked Cornyn for a late night foreign aid vote in the Senate, saying in a post it is ‘unbelievable’ that Cornyn ‘would stay up all night to defend other countries borders, but not America.’

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Texas's attorney general, Ken Paxton, greets President Trump at the 'Save America' rally on October 22, 2022, at Robstown, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, in the midst of an attempt to purge Republicans who supported a failed impeachment effort to depose him from power, is picking a fight with Texas’s senior senator, John Cornyn, who is seeking to succeed Senator McConnell as the GOP leader.

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