{"id":232638,"date":"2026-06-12T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=232638"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:57:11","slug":"john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-senate-race-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=232638","title":{"rendered":"John Cornyn says he\u2019ll back Ken Paxton, who is set to face Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate race \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed.Trump-backed Ken Paxton ousts John Cornyn in heated Texas race after scandal-plagued campaignAmerica\u2019s ugliest primary? Texas Republican infighting could hand Senate seat to DemocratSign up for the Breaking News US emailPresident Trump\u2019s administration floated a plan to ask federal workers to sign non-disclosure agreements&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/26\/donald-trump-medical-walter-reed-republicans-texas-runoff-iran-latest-news-updates\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed.Trump-backed Ken Paxton ousts John Cornyn in heated Texas race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232638-john-cornyn-says-hell-back-ken-paxton-who-is-set-to-face-democrat-james-talarico-in-texas-6a2bf43a67659.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}