{"id":49799,"date":"2026-05-27T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49799"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:37:05","slug":"trump-backed-ken-paxton-ousts-incumbent-senator-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49799","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Backed Ken Paxton Ousts Incumbent Senator in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Trump-Backed Ken Paxton Ousts Incumbent Senator in Texas<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Trump-Backed Ken Paxton Ousts Incumbent Senator in Texas<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general endorsed by President Trump, defeated John Cornyn, a four-term Republican senator, in a runoff. The race\u2019s results reflected Trump\u2019s influence over the party.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Let me be clear. This is not just my win. This is your win. President Trump is the leader of our party, and his endorsement in this \u2014 is the most powerful force in politics. After a public service career lasting more than four decades and 18 consecutive campaign wins, tonight we come \u2014 we\u2019ve come up short in this primary runoff. James Talarico. So nice to meet you.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general endorsed by President Trump, defeated John Cornyn, a four-term Republican senator, in a runoff. The race\u2019s results reflected Trump\u2019s influence over the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julie Yoon<\/p>\n<p>May 27, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Trump-Backed Ken Paxton Ousts Incumbent Senator in Texas transcript Back transcript Trump-Backed Ken Paxton Ousts Incumbent Senator in Texas Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general endorsed by President Trump, defeated John Cornyn, a four-term Republican senator, in a runoff. The race\u2019s results reflected Trump\u2019s influence over the party. Let me be clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[24619,1132,24618,5637,960,1010,21050],"class_list":{"0":"post-49799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-incumbent","9":"tag-ken","10":"tag-ousts","11":"tag-paxton","12":"tag-senator","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-trumpbacked"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49799","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=49799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}