Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary runoff.
The Associated Press called the race within a minute of polls closing.
UPDATE 9:00 p.m. ET:
Polls across Texas are now closed, with the 7 o’clock hour arriving in El Paso, Texas.
Fifty-six percent of votes are in in the Republican Senate runoff. Paxton is ahead with 62.5 percent.
Expect prognosticators to begin calling this race any moment now.
UPDATE 8:55 p.m. ET:
The NRSC statement does not name Paxton – polls are still open, after all – and is attributed to a regional press secretary, not Thune or NRSC Chair Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
Thune and Scott presumably must speak about their party’s nominee at some point. But they’ll also be pressured to answer why they funneled tens of millions of dollars into a losing candidate, money that bloodied their eventual nominee and, by conventional understanding of politics, will make the Republicans’ chance of keeping the seat more difficult, or at least more expensive.
UPDATE 9:04 p.m. ET:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary runoff.
The Associated Press called the race within a minute of polls closing.
UPDATE 9:00 p.m. ET:
Polls across Texas are now closed, with the 7 o’clock hour arriving in El Paso, Texas.
Fifty-six percent of votes are in in the Republican Senate runoff. Paxton is ahead with 62.5 percent.
Expect prognosticators to begin calling this race any moment now.
UPDATE 8:55 p.m. ET:
The NRSC statement does not name Paxton – polls are still open, after all – and is attributed to a regional press secretary, not Thune or NRSC Chair Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
Thune and Scott presumably must speak about their party’s nominee at some point. But they’ll also be pressured to answer why they funneled tens of millions of dollars into a losing candidate, money that bloodied their eventual nominee and, by conventional understanding of politics, will make the Republicans’ chance of keeping the seat more difficult, or at least more expensive.