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"$10.9 Million In DARK Money" - Texas AG TORCHES The Swamp Protecting John Cornyn

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🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A heated Texas Senate primary unfolds as Ken Paxton challenges longtime Senator John Cornyn, framing the race as a fight over leadership, policy direction, and what he calls decades of political stagnation in Washington. With major endorsements, high-stakes funding battles, and national figures like Obama backing the opposing side, the race is being described as one of the most intense political showdowns in Texas history.

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0:00.0

Some follow the noise.

0:03.3

Bloomberg follows the money.

0:05.4

Because behind every headline is a bottom line.

0:09.3

Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,

0:13.8

there's a money side to every story.

0:16.5

And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.

0:20.8

Get the money side of the story.

0:22.9

Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.

0:27.4

You are currently in one of the nastiest races out there.

0:30.9

They're calling it the nastiest Senate race primary in the history of Texas.

0:35.4

You're going against the current sitting Senator John Cornyn,

0:39.2

who has been there since, I think, 2002, and he's been in politics for 40 plus years,

0:44.4

42, 43 years. So he's been a senator for 24 years. You're going up against him. The numbers

0:50.2

that I look at here on the race is he has raised 17 times you have raised based on the

0:57.9

money that you look at every everywhere. They're bragging about it, right? They've raised 17 times

1:03.6

you. And then whoever wins between the two of you will be facing James Teller Rico, which yesterday

1:10.1

Barack Obama was there helping him campaign with him, right?

1:13.1

And we know Tellerico first quarter raised, I don't know, $27 million, I think three times what Cornyn raised in the first quarter,

1:20.5

and 12 times what you raised in the first quarter.

1:23.3

And the plus minus is the market says that if you face him, he's up eight.

1:29.8

But if Cornyn, yeah, he's up eight.

1:31.8

But if Cornyn faces him, he's up seven, which means it's a tight race between you and John Cornyn.

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