{"id":49757,"date":"2026-05-26T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49757"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:26:24","slug":"texas-republican-candidates-face-off-in-key-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49757","title":{"rendered":"Texas Republican Candidates Face Off in Key Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Texas Republican Candidates Face Off in Key Senate Race<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Texas Republican Candidates Face Off in Key Senate Race<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Voters in Texas head to the polls on Tuesday for a Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent, John Cornyn, and a Trump-backed challenger, Ken Paxton.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I\u2019m so honored to have President Trump\u2019s endorsement. His endorsement, in my opinion, is the most significant endorsement that I \u2014 in my lifetime. I\u2019ve worked for decades to build the Republican Party, both here in Texas and nationally. There is simply too much at stake in this midterm election for our state and for our country.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Voters in Texas head to the polls on Tuesday for a Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent, John Cornyn, and a Trump-backed challenger, Ken Paxton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julie Yoon<\/p>\n<p>May 26, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Texas Republican Candidates Face Off in Key Senate Race transcript Back transcript Texas Republican Candidates Face Off in Key Senate Race Voters in Texas head to the polls on Tuesday for a Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent, John Cornyn, and a Trump-backed challenger, Ken Paxton. I\u2019m so honored to have President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[6826,584,788,2475,959,1314,1010],"class_list":{"0":"post-49757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-candidates","9":"tag-face","10":"tag-key","11":"tag-race","12":"tag-republican","13":"tag-senate","14":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}