Races to watch in Texas’s primary runoffs: Cornyn-Paxton, Chip Roy's attorney general bid, House contests
Key takeaways
- The last-minute support tees up another test of Trump s influence in a Republican primary.
- While the Senate race is the Lone Star State s marquee runoff, other widely watched races have come down to a final pair of candidates who did not win half of the vote outright in March.
- Colin Allred (D-Texas) is challenging his successor, Rep.
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John Cornyn (R-Texas) will be in the fight of his political life Tuesday, as he looks to defy the odds and defeat Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched an endorsement from President Trump, in the Senate GOP runoff.
The last-minute support tees up another test of Trump s influence in a Republican primary. The president has already successfully picked off several detractors, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).
While the Senate race is the Lone Star State s marquee runoff, other widely watched races have come down to a final pair of candidates who did not win half of the vote outright in March. One of those is the heated Democratic primary between Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee for a Houston-area House seat that s turned into a proxy battle over generational change.