{"id":24729,"date":"2026-05-25T21:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/races-to-watch-in-texass-primary-runoffs-cornyn-paxton-chip-roys-attorney-general-bid-house-contests\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:36:22","slug":"races-to-watch-in-texass-primary-runoffs-cornyn-paxton-chip-roys-attorney-general-bid-house-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/races-to-watch-in-texass-primary-runoffs-cornyn-paxton-chip-roys-attorney-general-bid-house-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Races to watch in Texas\u2019s primary runoffs: Cornyn-Paxton, Chip Roy&#039;s attorney general bid, House contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Texas-races-to-watch_Vakil_AP_Julio-Cortez-and-Allison-Robbert.png?w=900\" \/><br \/>Sen.\u00a0John Cornyn (R-Texas) will be in the fight of his political life Tuesday,\u00a0as he looks to defy the odds and defeat\u00a0Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,\u00a0who clinched an\u00a0endorsement from President Trump, in the Senate GOP\u00a0runoff.\u00a0 The last-minute support tees up another test of Trump&#8217;s influence in a Republican primary.\u00a0The president has already successfully picked off several&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5891209-texas-cornyn-paxton-trump-senate-primary-runoff\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0John Cornyn (R-Texas) will be in the fight of his political life Tuesday,\u00a0as he looks to defy the odds and defeat\u00a0Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,\u00a0who clinched an\u00a0endorsement from President Trump, in the Senate GOP\u00a0runoff.\u00a0 The last-minute support tees up another test of Trump&#8217;s influence in a Republican primary.\u00a0The president has already successfully picked off several&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}