Author Topic: John Cornyn and Ken Paxton have been trading jabs as a potential primary showdown looms  (Read 887 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline corbe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40,314
John Cornyn and Ken Paxton have been trading jabs as a potential primary showdown looms

A battle for Cornyn’s Senate seat would be a clash of Texas Republican titans.

By Gromer Jeffers Jr.
political writer
Nov. 29, 2024


After enduring this year’s brutal primary season, Texas Republicans are bracing for another bruising primary pitting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in 2026.

The two politicians, titans in Texas Republican politics, have been circling each other for more than a year, setting up a potential clash that would test the power of Paxton’s appeal to hard-right conservatives and Cornyn’s strength as a well-funded incumbent and prolific vote-getter.

John Cornyn has represented Texas in the U.S. Senate since 2002 and plans to seek another six-year term in 2026. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has discussed challenging Cornyn in the GOP primary. The matchup would be a clash between two sides of a divided state Republican Party.

A Paxton-Cornyn showdown would be the next step in a continuing power struggle within the GOP.
“If Paxton gets in, expect another real donnybrook in the primary,” said Republican political consultant Vinny Minchillo, who worked on the presidential campaigns of U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.

<..snip..>

https://archive.is/RVkjW#selection-1893.0-2057.196
No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.

Offline Hoodat

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 43,103
All the Dems will be voting for Cornyn.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."     -Ayn Rand-