Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Finance Committee lost his Republican primary runoff Tuesday to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to national news outlets.
Paxton, recently endorsed by President Donald Trump, won about 64% of the vote in the GOP runoff, according to Wednesday morning data from NBC News.
The winner will face Democrat James Talarico, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the November general election. In March, Talarico defeated U.S. Rep. Jasemine Crockett in the Texas Democratic Party primary.
Cornyn was first elected to the Senate in 2002. Paxton became Texas attorney general in 2015 and later withstood a 2023 impeachment vote in the GOP-majority Texas House of Representatives.
