Trump endorses AG Ken Paxton in U.S. Senate race in Texas – Spectrum News
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has officially endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate in Texas.
Trump announced the endorsement on Tuesday, the day after early voting kicked off for the May runoff election. He teased the endorsement announcement Tuesday morning before officially announcing it at 11:30 a.m. Central Time on Truth Social.
President Trump: "I’m going to be putting out an endorsement in a little while in Texas…I’m going to be making an endorsement at about 12:30, 1 o’clock today for the big race, the Senate race in Texas and I hope you find it good." 🚨
Incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Paxton advanced to the May 26 runoff after neither received the over 50% of the vote needed to win outright. Cornyn had 42% of the vote in March and Paxton had 41%. The third candidate in the race who didn’t make the runoff was U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Houston, with 14% of the vote.
Just after the March primary, Trump said he would endorse either Cornyn or Paxton “soon” and asked at the time that the candidate he didn’t endorse drop out of the race. He also previously said that he liked both candidates.
The winner of the runoff will take on state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, in the general election.
Early voting goes through Friday, May 22, and Election Day is on May 26.
