Republicans Are Scrambling To Avert A ‘Massacre’ In Texas Senate Race
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the GOP primary to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), setting off alarm bells in the party.
AUSTIN, Texas – Seven months and $60 million later, Senate Republicans’ efforts to rescue one of their caucus’ leading members have proven totally ineffective, driving worries the party could lose a statewide election in Texas for the first time in three decades and give Democrats another pathway to claiming a Senate majority.
Despite getting massively outspent in the final weeks before the March 3 primary, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the GOP race to replace longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in a contest that’s likely to go to a runoff next month. An underwhelming performance by Cornyn might seal his fate before that even happens, so he’s stepping up his attacks against Paxton this week, predicting an electoral bloodbath for the GOP should the ethically challenged, far-right Paxton become the nominee.
“We will have an Election Day massacre,” Cornyn warned at an early voting kickoff event on Tuesday. “Republicans up and down the ticket will pay the price of having an albatross like our corrupt attorney general hung around their neck. If Ken Paxton is at the top of the ticket, we risk losing the Senate seat, losing the majority in the House of Representatives, and it will take a toll on everybody on the ballot.”
“Complacency is a killer,” he added. “Complacency kills relationships, it kills careers, it kills countries, and it kills great political parties, like the Republican Party right here in Texas.”
The 74-year-old senator, who is seeing his fifth term in the Senate, is hoping GOP primary voters in Texas will be moved by appeals to ethics and propriety in the age of Trump, a two-time divorcee who was twice impeached by a Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives. Paxton was impeached in 2023 by the GOP-controlled Texas House for bribery and abuse of office. His wife also divorced him last year on “biblical grounds,” including accusations of adultery. But Trump has stood by the conservative hardliner, dismissing his impeachment as “unfair” and a “disgrace.” He’s even floated him as a possible candidate for U.S. attorney general.
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