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Right-Wing Firebrand Ken Paxton Announces Effort To Unseat the Incumbent, Senator Cornyn, in Texas, Risking a Money Pit for the GOP in Difficult Midterms

The last competitive Senate Republican primary in Texas cost $25 million. The 2026 race could be much more.

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Texas Attorney General Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor at Oxon Hill, Maryland, February 23, 2024. AP/Jose Luis Magana
MATTHEW RICE
MATTHEW RICE

Texas’s hard-right attorney general Ken Paxton says he is running against Senator Cornyn in the 2026 GOP primary after years of fighting with his state’s senior senator. Mr. Cornyn has brushed off the challenge, saying Mr. Paxton is a fraud and a philanderer unworthy of Texans’ trust. 

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MATTHEW RICE
MATTHEW RICE

Mr. Rice, based in the nation's capital, covers current events in politics.

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