00:00Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the Lone Star
00:04State's Republican Senate primary runoff. The win comes exactly one week after a late
00:09endorsement from President Trump boosted Paxton's numbers. The president hailed the AG as a MAGA
00:15loyalist. Paxton himself touted his history of suing to defend conservative values, including
00:20more than 100 lawsuits against the Biden administration over, quote, open borders
00:24policies, the government overreach, attacks on the Second Amendment and the far left's radical
00:28agenda. He will now take on Democratic nominee James Tallarico in November's general election.
00:34Recent polling showed a Paxton-Talerico matchup as a dead heat,
00:37but Texas has not elected a Democratic senator since 1988.
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