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Ken Paxton, John Cornyn and Senate

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Austin American-Statesman |
"Obviously, Mr. Paxton has a checkered background," Cornyn told reporters Wednesday in Washington during an impromptu recorded interview.
Roll Call |
Paxton is positioning himself as a disruptor, pledging in a social media post to “take a sledgehammer to the D.C. establishment” and dismissing Cornyn as a 24-year incumbent who’s no longer effective.
Houston Chronicle |
“We’re going to end up spending hundreds of millions of dollars potentially on this race in Texas because we can't lose the seat in Texas, and that is money that can't be used in places like Michigan,...

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