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Ken Paxton beats John Cornyn in Texas GOP Senate primary runoff, CBS News projects | Special Report 80%
5/27/2026, 1:21:37 AM
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This is a CBS News special report. I'm
Jessie Mitchell in New York. CBS News projects Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton has won his state's Republican Senate primary beating incumbent John Cornyn in tonight's runoff.
Paxton will now face Democratic nominee James Talarico in November for the US Senate seat.
Paxton was recently endorsed by President Trump and incumbent John Cornyn was running for a fifth term.
The race has been the most expensive Senate primary in US history.
Now let's bring in CBS News elections and surveys executive director Anthony Salvanto.
Good evening.
How you doing Jessie? And look, this sets up what will surely be one of the most closely watched Senate races this November. Here's how Paxton did it and in some ways very straightforward math.
He's got such a commanding lead with so much vote in.
You see it's half the vote now that we've determined at the data desk that there's no way that Cornyn can gain enough votes to catch up.
That's the simple and straightforward reason that I can project this race.
But the second part of this is you look at this map where the yellow shaded counties are where Paxton won, exceeded Cornyn's vote so far and you really see the power of Donald Trump's endorsement here because if I were to rewind this map back to the initial primary, what you would have seen is that many more of these counties, in fact overall, Cornyn had actually edged Paxton.
But here it's a flip and that I think is a testament in many ways to that endorsement from the president being able to change all of these votes and those vote patterns overall.
overall. So that's what you see here out of Texas and again, setting up one of the big contests for November, Jessie.
More of that big Trump picture playing out. CBS News elections and surveys executive director Anthony Salvanto, thank you so much.
Once again, CBS News projects Ken Paxton has won the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff.
He'll face Democratic nominee James Talarico in November for a seat in the US Senate.
Our coverage will continue on CBS News 24/7, your local news, and tomorrow on CBS Mornings.
This has been a CBS News special report. I'm Jessie Mitchell in
New York. The Daily Report continues next.
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