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First on the fox -Republican Ambassador Lance GOJEND from Texas occupies sides in the growing battle of the GOP Senate Lone Star -Star between longtime His. John Corny and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Gooden, a square legislator representing a congress district involving parts of Eastern Dallas, as well as large parts of the suburban, external and rural areas east of the city, approved Paxton on Thursday. Known as Maga Fire brand and ally of the President Donald Trump.
“Chief lawyer Paxton is a conservative champion we need in the US Senate,” Gooden wrote in a statement divided first with Fox News.
He predicted that Paxton “would take a hammer at the institution, secure the border and hardly fight for the agenda of President Trump. Ken Paxton has my complete and complete approval.”
Prepare for a nasty and expensive primary Senate GOP -Sau Texas
Ambassador Lance Gooden supported Texas State Attorney Ken Paxton in the 2026 US Senate Senate race in Texas. Paxton is a major challenge for the longtime senator of GOP John Cornyn. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Gooden, who is a member of the Committee on Armed Service and Justice, is the second member of the Texas Congress delegation to support Paxton, after the Republican ambassador of Troy Nehls, who approved the Attorney General on Wednesday.
While he is preparing for what will surely be his brightest choice of his decade career, Cornyn has the support of a top Republican in Senate, The leader of most John Thune South Dakota, as well as the national Republican Senator Committee (NRSC).
And the Republican sources have confirmed Fox News that Thune, as well as Senator Tim Scott, R -SC, a NRSC chairman, personally asked Trump to return Cornyna.
GOP president’s grip is stronger than ever, and any approval that Trump can give in the new Republican Senate in Texas would be extremely influential.
Paxton announced his candidacy on Tuesday night in the Fox News appearance ‘ “Ingraham corner.”
“It’s time to change Texas,” said Paxton, who first won the election as a state attorney in 2014, while launching his campaign.
Chief lawyer Ken Paxton speaks at an event outside the Texas Statehouse, February 28, 2022 in Austin. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
And pointing to the conservative senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Paxton claimed It is “It’s time to have another big senator who will actually get up and fight for republican values, fight for the values of Texas people, and also support Donald Trump in areas that is focused in a very significant way.”
Paxton flirted for several years by launching a primary challenge in 2026 against Cornyn, a former state senator, a former Supreme Court of Supreme Court in Texas and a former Attorney General, who first won the US Senate in 2002.
Paxton has long claimed that Cornyn does not represent conservative The values of the Texasand accused the senator of not ally of Trump. Cornyn regularly marked “Rino”, “Only a Republican in the name” – insult of Maga and “American First” Republicans were regularly used to criticize more major or GOP members.
During the early stage of the Republican Presidential race, Cornyn said that he would prefer the GOP to embark on a new direction, which made Trump angry. However, the senator supported Trump at the end of January last year, after the then president of the Form won the Iowa MPs and the primary in New Hampshire, the first two competitions in the Republican Calendar of the Presidential Candidate.
Senator John Cornyn speaks during the hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Since Trump returned to the White House three months ago, Cornyn was Support for the president’s candidates and the agenda.
In a video of the senatorial campaign last month, the announcer pointed out that during Trump’s first term of office, “Texas Senator John Cornyn had a back.”
And Cornyn told reporters at Capitol Hill on Wednesday that he had a “92% record of voting” with President Trump.
“It is unclear to me exactly what Mr. Paxton motivates, in addition to vanity and personal ambition, he will certainly not change much in terms of voting record, because I was a supporter of President Trump and his agenda,” Senator claimed.
Paxton has attracted national attention in 2020 for submission of unsuccessful Texas vs. Pennsylvania case In the Supreme Court who tried to undo the victory of former President Joe Biden thin over Trump in the state of Keystone, and to talk at Trump’s gathering near the White House, which immediately preceded a deadly attack on January 6th. On the US Capitol to the right -wing extremists, with the aim of disturbing the congress certification.
During Biden for four years in the White House, Paxton took the administration to court several times.
While Paxton, who is in his third four -year term as a Texas State Attorney, has long been a legal warrior at Maga Maga, he also has a lot of personal political luggage.
Republican State Attorney Ken Paxton on his primary dinner, March 1, 2022 in McKinney, Texas. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Paxton was charged with charges of fraud in securities shortly after he took his position in 2015 and was also under investigation by FBI for charges of bribery and corruption of former best employees. 2022 survived the bruise in the midst of his many legal difficulties.
In 2023, Paxton was abolished by the Texas House of Representatives, but later he was acquitted by the state Senate of all charges.
Charges in long -standing federal corruption probes have been rejected during the last weeks of the Biden administration.
Although Paxton has denied any injustice for years and has survived his legal fighting, he will probably continue to face severe optics and many incoming firefighters because of his past troubles during the charges of the Senate.
“Paxton has a plaid background. He is a fraudster and a fraudster and I think people from Texas know that,” Cornyn accused Wednesday.
And the senator added, “It will be on the litigation during this campaign.”
Matt Mackowiak, a Veterans Republican Strategist and Communications Advisor with headquarters in Texas and Washington, DC, pointed to the bruise of the internal Battle in advance, because he told Fox News that “this would be the most expensive, worst, most aggressive, most bondable, most bedroom, in the history of Texas.”
“You have two candidates who will raise significant funds, which are in significant positions, who do not like and do not like each other, whose teams do not love each other and that the role cannot be bigger,” Mackowiak said.
GOP Rev. Wesley Hunt of Texas is title to the opening of the first office of Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania, June 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
The potential complication of the primary battle is possible to offer the Senate of Conservative Ambassador Wesley Hunt, which represents the district in the Houston area.
The third time of the 43-year-old Texas Republican and the growing star Maga gave his case to the president’s political team, the sources confirm Fox News. Hunt is an argument that the only person to win both the primary GOP and the General Election, the source familiar with the discussions confirmed for Fox News.
The Hunt’s external group support currently consumes seven numbers to start ads throughout the Lone Star state to increase the recognition of the names of MPs.
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The possible winner of the GOP for next year will be considered a favorite in the general elections against anyone who nominated the Democrats.
Former Democratic Ambassador Colin Allred said he would decide by this summer whether he would mount the Senate’s 2026 campaign.
Allred, former Baylor and NFL Linebacker University footballer who later represented Texas 32th Congress District (which includes parts of Dallas and surrounding suburbs), was last year’s democratic challenger in the race against Cruz.
