In recent interviews, John Cornyn and Jasmine Crockett said they intend to boost their parties’ other races rather than James Talarico and Ken Paxton.
By
Nia Prater,
Intelligencer staff writer, who covers New York politics
U.S. senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on August 4, 2026.
Democratic representative James Talarico and state Republican attorney general Ken Paxton emerged victorious from their contentious primaries and are facing off in Texas’s most-contested Senate race since at least 2018. But don’t expect to see their primary opponents lining up to support them.
A race to decide which Republican, John Cornyn or Ken Paxton, will face off against the Democrat James Talarico, in November, and…
A race to decide whether John Cornyn or Ken Paxton will face off against the Democrat James Talarico, in November.
If Democrats got to choose who to run Talarico against, they would pick Ken Paxton. By picking him over John Cornyn, the GOP gave…
Cornyn just made this race harder without delivering any discernible benefit to the party he claims to support.
Cornyn led the March primary with 42% of the vote, narrowly ahead of Paxton’s 40.5%, sending both to a runoff.
State Rep. James Talarico topped Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in an expensive and fiercely contested Texas Senate Democratic…
