{"id":59881,"date":"2026-05-31T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59881"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:57:02","slug":"paxton-didnt-get-a-mandate-in-that-gop-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59881","title":{"rendered":"Paxton didn&#8217;t get a mandate in that GOP runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p>Before the MAGA morons who supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s Republican runoff victory over John Cornyn get too full of themselves, allow me to briefly put a this victory into some perspective.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Yes, the AG scored a decisive victory, beating the U.S. senator by 27 percentage points in the runoff. However, Paxton only tallied about 12,000 more votes in the runoff than he got in the GOP primary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The runoff turnout fell into the basement compared to the already low primary turnout. That, by itself, is not unusual. Republicans, though, do not appear to be too enthused by someone topping their ticket who is so heavily damaged by political and personal scandal as Paxton.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Paxton&#8217;s wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, is divorcing him on &#8220;biblical grounds,&#8221; which is a sort of shorthand for all extramarital affairs he&#8217;s had. His top legal aides blew the whistle on him for alleged unethical behavior. A Collin County grand jury indicted him on charges of securities fraud. Texas Republicans impeached him in the Texas House.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And so, Texas Democrats are licking their chops waiting for the fall campaign to begin. Their Senate candidate, state Rep. James Talarico, is a choir boy compared to the AG.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As for Sen. Cornyn, do you really believe he is going to campaign for the MAGA dipshit who defeated him?<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the MAGA morons who supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s Republican runoff victory over John Cornyn get too full of themselves, allow me to briefly put a this victory into some perspective. Yes, the AG scored a decisive victory, beating the U.S. senator by 27 percentage points in the runoff. However, Paxton only tallied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59881\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paxton didn&#8217;t get a mandate in that GOP runoff<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1965,2526,2652,7419,10197,5051],"class_list":["post-59881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-gop-runoff","tag-john-cornyn","tag-ken-paxton","tag-maga","tag-paxton-impeachment","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59884,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59881\/revisions\/59884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}