{"id":24919,"date":"2026-06-01T02:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/paxton-set-to-meet-with-thune-after-cornyn-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:34:53","slug":"paxton-set-to-meet-with-thune-after-cornyn-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/paxton-set-to-meet-with-thune-after-cornyn-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton set to meet with Thune after Cornyn loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/paxtonken_022324gn07_w_3965db.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Sunday said he will meet with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R) after winning the GOP runoff to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.\u00a0 Since beating Cornyn, a four-term incumbent, Paxton says he\u2019s been in contact with Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-S.D.), Republican Conference Chair Sen. Tom&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5903466-texas-ag-ken-paxton-senate\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Sunday said he will meet with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R) after winning the GOP runoff to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.\u00a0 Since beating Cornyn, a four-term incumbent, Paxton says he\u2019s been in contact with Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-S.D.), Republican Conference Chair Sen. Tom&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24919","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\/24919","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=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}