Republican contest in May could provide Democrats with opening to finally win over staunchly red state
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Neither John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton were able to secure 50% of the vote on Tuesday, meaning that the two Republicans must face again in a runoff election on 26 May.
The four-term Republican US senator Cornyn has maintained throughout his campaign that a victory for attorney general Paxton – a scandal-scarred Maga darling and conservative culture warrior – could “risk everything we’ve worked so hard to build over these many years”.