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Donald Trump has endorsed nan Texas lawyer general, Ken Paxton, successful nan state’s Republican primary, bolstering his bid to unseat nan incumbent US senator, John Cornyn.
The US president praised Paxton, who has sounded himself arsenic a governmental warrior for Trump’s Make America Great Again movement, arsenic an “America First Patriot” successful a station connected societal media connected Tuesday.
The intervention, which comes up of adjacent week’s May superior runoff, comes contempt warnings from different starring Republicans that Conryn would beryllium a stronger campaigner successful November’s wide elections.
Democrats person nominated nan Texas authorities representative, James Talarico, arsenic their campaigner for Senate.
“Ken is simply a existent MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will proceed to do truthful successful nan United States Senate,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social.
But Paxton has been embroiled successful a bid of controversies. He was acquitted successful a 2023 impeachment proceedings connected corruption charges. He besides reached a woody successful 2024 to extremity a long-running securities fraud case.
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