Key Trump Ally to announce a run against a leading Republican in ‘The next few months’

In an interview with members of the Republican Party in Denton County on Monday night, Texas State Attorney Ken PaxtonThe longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said several Republicans who plans to clean from the Texas GOP for not conservative.

Among those on the Paxton list was Texas’s older American Sen. John CornynOne of the most powerful members of the GOP Senate.

The audience broke out in a loud applause while Paxton said, “The other thing we need to do, and I could play a role in that is to replace John Cornyna in US Senate.”

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State Attorney State Attorney, who worked with the Trump team to file a lawsuit in December successfully secured a court order Stopping the Administration of Biden in the continuation of the sale of border wall materials has long hinted at a potential running to replace Cornyna.

“I can’t remember a single thing he achieved for our country or even for the country,” Paxton said in an interview with September 2023 at Fox News Channel. And pointing to a possible Senate in Senate 2026, Paxton said, “Someone should step up and run against this guy,” adding, “It’s all on the table for me.”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Paxton gave more credibility to rumors, saying despite “I love what I do … Potentially watch American Senate. “

He shared that he was talking to the Texas groups about the possible run of Senate 2026 and would probably decide in the “next few months”.

Paxton claimed that Cornyn did not represent the conservative values ​​of Texan and accused him of not the ally of Trump.

Cornyn regularly marked “Rino”, “Only a Republican in the name”, and the insult of Maga and “America First” Republicans were regularly used to criticize several major or GOP members.

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Another source close to Paxton told Fox News Digital, the Attorney General “plans to spend the next few months, meeting voters, donors and wide activists across the country to evaluate interest and decide how to serve the best in Texas.”

The Attorney General faced his own expensive challenge. 2022. He won the primary effort Former Texas Commissioner for Land George P. Bush in the midst of charges of receiving myth and corruption. In 2023, the Texas House of Representatives voted for Paxton, but in the end the state Senate was acquitted of all charges.

For his part, Cornyn, who has served in Senate since 2002, has no intention of leaving the Senate. After serving the key leadership positions of the GOP, including the Chairman of the National Republican Senator Committee, from 2009 to 2013 and Senate majority Bich, from 2015 to 2019, he threw a hat in the ring to become the leader of the Senate majority in 2024although he eventually lost to the southern Dakota Senator John Thune.

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Cornyn, meanwhile, said he would “absolutely” restart in 2026.

In recent months, he has also been a vocal supporter of Trump’s cabinet elections and has scored Democrats for delaying confirmation for key positions. In the speech on the floor of the Senate earlier this month, he said: “Our first and most urgent task is to confirm the candidates of President Trump for his cabinet.”

Since both of them were guided by the leading Republicans and both of them have significant support, any potential primary race between the two in Lone Star promises to be dramatic – perhaps messy – a showdown.

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One of the main questions that remains is whether the president will support his longtime ally Paxton, or, in the interest of preserving the party unity, will support the GOP institution, which has been previously criticized as “weak” and “ineffective”.

“The big question is whether Trump will support Paxton over Cornyn in the primary challenge,” Matt MackowiakFor Fox News Digital, for Fox News Digital, a Republican strategist and a communications counselor with headquarters in Texas and Washington, DC, Fox News Digital told Fox News.

“Cornyn has never lost the race. Cornyn has a lot of support across the country. He has traveled all the corners of the state for a long time and is very well known and loved very well,” Mackowiak said. “We were not a Republican senator lost the primary of Richard Lugar in 2004.

“How many people sometimes think it’s feasible, they think it’s easy, they think it’s inevitable, it really doesn’t happen. But I’m not saying it can’t happen. I’m not saying that Paxton can’t win. I think he certainly has a decent the opportunity. “

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Mackowiak added that if Paxton runs, it will be a huge race with national consequences. “

“You would have national activists and money involved on both sides,” he said. “This could be one of the greatest primary cycles and probably the most significant state primary in Texas of Dewhurst-Cruz [when former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz defeated Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for the GOP Senate nomination in 2012 en route to winning his first U.S. Senate election] or cannot be realized at all. And I think it will be a few months before we know. “