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Trump-Backed Paxton Wins Texas Senate Runoff, Ousting Veteran Senator John Cornyn

Trump-Backed Paxton Wins Texas Senate Runoff, Ousting Veteran Senator John Cornyn

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, backed by President Donald Trump, is projected by U.S. media to have defeated four‑term Senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary run‑off.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough.
2. Ken Paxton has gone through a lot, in many cases, very unfairly, but he is a Fighter, and knows how to win.
John Cornyn
Republican Party
1. Another reminder that those who show up decide for those who do not.
2. I can't in good conscience turn this Red Senate seat over to someone who could likely to let it slip through their fingers to the detriment of Republicans in Texas, the Republican Party nationally and to the detriment of president Trump's agenda. I feel a responsibility as a result of my long service.
3. I think of what a wonderful experience I have had.
4. I've always supported the GOP ticket. I intend to do so again this general election.
5. After a public service career lasting more than four decades and 18 consecutive campaign wins, tonight we've come up short in this primary runoff.
6. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, and I've kept the faith.
7. Texans get to choose our senator and no one else.
Democratic Party
1. To embrace and uplift a fringe candidate with antisemitic — and extremely dangerous — rhetoric and views in order to win an election is beyond the pale.
Ken Paxton
US Attorney's Office
1. I've won three statewide elections because I know how critical it is for our party to come together, and that's what we must do now.
2. My opponent is the most extreme radical the Democrats have ever nominated.
3. If Republicans lose this state, we lose the country.
4. Without a shadow of a doubt, I will be the Democrats' number one target in November.
5. President Trump is the leader of our party, and his endorsement is the most powerful force in politics.
6. When everyone in Washington told him to abandon me and abandon the people of Texas, he didn't listen.
James Talarico
Democratic Party
1. He embodies the broken system we're running against.
2. To Senator Cornyn's supporters: You have a place in our campaign.
3. We don't agree on everything, but we both still believe in public service.
Tony Buzbee
US Attorney's Office
1. We'd be impeaching for the next 100 years, wouldn't we?
2. Imagine if we impeached everybody here in Austin that had had an affair.
Brandon Rottinghaus
University of Houston
1. Paxton was Donald Trump before Donald Trump was. He was in the vanguard of the Tea Party movement, which was a major spur for the Maga movement nationally.
Angela Paxton
1. I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.
2. Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds. I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.

Trump-Backed Paxton Wins Texas Senate Runoff, Ousting Veteran Senator John Cornyn

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