{"id":53369,"date":"2026-05-27T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/texas-attorney-general-paxton-routs-veteran-incumbent-cornyn-in-us-senate-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:22:51","slug":"texas-attorney-general-paxton-routs-veteran-incumbent-cornyn-in-us-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/texas-attorney-general-paxton-routs-veteran-incumbent-cornyn-in-us-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Paxton routs veteran incumbent Cornyn in US Senate primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">That endorsement never came, however. Paxton, while beset with personal and political scandals over the years, was a favourite among Trump&#8217;s populist base in Texas. He campaigned against the 74-year-old Cornyn as too old, too timid, too aligned with the political establishment and too out-of-touch with Texas conservatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clypprglrlyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That endorsement never came, however. Paxton, while beset with personal and political scandals over the years, was a favourite among Trump&#8217;s populist base in Texas. He campaigned against the 74-year-old Cornyn as too old, too timid, too aligned with the political establishment and too out-of-touch with Texas conservatives. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53371,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53369\/revisions\/53371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}