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First on Fox – Republican MP Lance Goden from Texas meets party in the up -and -coming primary battle of the Lone Star State between the long -term GOP -Senat It is. John Corny and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Gooden, a four -person legislator who represents a congress district in which parts of the eastern Dallas and large parts of the Vorstadt, the exorban and the rural areas east of the city, advocated Paxton on Thursday. He is known as the Maga Firebrand and ally of the President Donald Trump.
“Attorney General Paxton is the conservative champion that we need in the US Senate,” wrote Goode in an explanation that was first shared with FOX News.
He predicted that Paxton “brought a slanter to the establishment, secure the border and fight hard for President Trump’s agenda. Ken Paxton has my complete and total confirmation.”
MP Lance Gours approved the Texan Attorney General Ken Paxton in the US Senate Race 2026 in Texas. Paxton is the most important challenging long -time GOP senator John Cornyn. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Gauden, member of the House Armed Services committees and the judiciary, is the second member of the Texas Congress delegation from Paxton after the Republican MP Troy Nehls, who advocated the Attorney General on Wednesday, approved.
When he prepares for the most difficult re-election of his decades of career, Cornyn has the support of the top republican in the Senate. Majority leader John Thune by South Dakota and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).
And Republican sources confirmed FOX News that Thun and Senator Tim Scott, R -SC, who asked NRSC, who have personally asked Trump, to support Cornyn.
The grip of the President of the GOP is stronger than ever, and any confirmation that Trump can do in the up -and -coming Republican Senate in Texas would be extremely influential.
Paxton announced his candidacy on Tuesday evening in a performance in Fox News. “The Ingraham angle.”
“It is time for a change in Texas,” said Paxton, who won the attorney in general for the first time in 2014 when he started his campaign.
Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks on February 28, 2022 in Austin at an event outside the Texas Statehouse. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
And indicate the conservative Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, Paxton argued The “It is time for us to have another big senator who actually get up and fight for Republican values, fight for people in Texas and Donald Trump in the areas on which he concentrates in a very significant way.”
Paxton has flirted for a few years for a few years with a main challenge of 2026 against Cornyn, a former senator of the state, the former Supreme Court in Texas, and former Attorney General, who won the election for the first time in 2002.
Paxton has long claimed that Cornyn does not represent the conservative Values of the TexansAnd has accused the senator not to be an ally of the Trump. He also regularly referred to Cornyn as “Rino”, a “Republican in the name” – an insult Maga and “America First” Republicans regularly used to criticize more mainstream or establishment members of the GOP.
Cornyn had said in the early stages of the Nominating race of the Republican President in 2024 that he would prefer to take the GOP a new direction that annoyed Trump. But the senator supported Trump at the end of January last, after the then president had won both the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary school, the first two competitions in the nomination of the Republican President.
Senator John Cornyn speaks during a hearing from the Senate Financing Committee on the Capitol Hill on March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Since Trump returned to the White House three months ago, Cornyn was Support of the cabinet candidates and agenda of the president.
In the Senator’s campaign start video last month, the announcer emphasized that “Texas Senator John Cornyn had his back”.
And Cornyn said reporters on the Capitol Hill on Wednesday that he had “a 92% voting record with President Trump”.
“It is precisely unclear to me what motivates Mr. Paxton out of vote except for vanity and personal ambition.
In 2020, Paxton attracted national attention to submitting the unsuccessful submission Texas against Pennsylvania case In the Supreme Court, who tried to overthrow the razor-thin profit of the former President Joe Biden against Trump in the Keystone state, and because of speaking at the Trump rally near the White House, which preceded the deadly attack of January 6 on the US Capitol by right-wing extremists in order to congratulate the electoral College-Victory-Victory-Victory-Victory-College-Victory.
During Bidens for four years in the White House, Paxton brought the administration to court several times.
While Paxton, who is a lawyer in Texas in his third four-year term, has long been a legal warrior in the Maga movement, he also has a lot of personal political luggage.
The Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton at his primary night party on March 1, 2022 in McKinney, Texas. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Paxton was charged shortly after taking office in 2015 for securities fraud and was examined by the FBI for bribery and accusations of former employees. In 2022 he survived a bloody area code in the middle of his many legal difficulties.
In 2023, Paxton was charged with the House of Representatives of Texas, but later acquitted from all charges of the Senate.
The fees in the long-term corruptional probe of the federal government have been dropped in the last weeks of the bidet management.
While Paxton has contested any misconduct for years and survived his legal fights, he would probably continue to be exposed to hard optics and many arriving fire to his previous predictions during a showdown of the Senate.
“Paxton has a checkered background. He is a fraudster and a fraud and I think the people in Texas know that,” accused Cornyn on Wednesday.
And the senator added: “This is negotiated in the course of this campaign.”
Matt Mackowiak, an experienced Republican strategist and communications consultant based in Texas and Washington, DC, pointed out the fight in the party ahead of us when he said Fox News: “This will be the most expensive, worst, most personal and personal US Senate primary in the history of Texas.”
“They have two candidates who will collect significant means that are in significant positions that do not like and have not liked themselves, whose teams do not like themselves and the missions could not be higher,” said Mackowiak.
GOP -MP Wesley Hunt of Texas Headlines of opening the first Trump campaign office in Pennsylvania on June 4, 2024 in Philadelphia. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Potentially complicit The main slaughter is a possible senate offer from the conservative MP Wesley Hunt, who represents a district in the Houston region.
The third-term 43-year-old Republican in Texas and the Rising Maga star have made his case with the President’s political team. Sources confirm Fox News. Hunt’s argument is that he is the only person who can win both a GOP primary school and a general choice, a source that is familiar with the discussions confirmed by Fox News.
An external group that supports Hunt currently spends seven figures to lead advertisements in the Lone Star State in order to increase the legislator’s name recognition.
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The later winner of the GOP primary school next year will be regarded as the favorite in the general elections against those who nominate the Democrats.
Former Democratic MP Colin Allred said he would decide until this summer whether he would perform a campaign of the Senate of 2026.
Allred, a former football player and NFL linacker at Baylor University, who later represented Texas 32nd Congress district (including parts of Dallas and the surrounding suburbs), was the democratic challenger of the last year in the race against Cruz.
