TX GOP chair: "I'm calling on both Senate candidates to pull all negative advertising."

While reports of Senate Republicans fuming over President Donald Trump's continue to swirl, Sen. Lindsey Graham

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are headed for a showdown in the Texas Senate primary next week. Which candidate would fare better in November? Is it really far-fetched for Democrats to dream of victories in ruby-red Florida?

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had both been vying for Trump's endorsement ahead of their runoff May 26.

It's a clash of some of the Texas GOP's biggest titans, and only one of them will move on to run against Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico in the general election in November.

Fox News commentator Brit Hume warned on Wednesday that President Trump’s decision to back a Republican challenger in Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) reelection race could weaken the GOP’s grasp on this Senate seat.

The president faced pressure from his base to endorse the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton. Advisers had urged him to support Sen. John Cornyn, arguing that Paxton has too much baggage.

President Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas GOP runoff for U.S. Senate, one week before voting ends in the contentious and expensive primary.

Live updates and latest news from the 2026 primary elections in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Oregon and Pennsylvania, including the Trump-backed effort to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky as voters head to the polls.