First Polls Close in Texas Runoff
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:28.6 | It is election night in America. |
| 0:30.7 | The focus is on Texas, where the outcome of a single Republican primary runoff tonight |
| 0:34.6 | could reshape the Senate this fall and perhaps recast the political |
| 0:38.4 | landscape for the rest of the Trump presidency. That is how significant the race between Texas |
| 0:43.2 | Attorney General Ken Paxton and the incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn could turn out to be. Could turn |
| 0:49.0 | reliably red Texas into a tipping point state in November. Most polls there just closed. Official results are just starting to come in. |
| 0:56.0 | John Cornyn has held the seat for more than two decades. |
| 0:59.0 | National Republicans believe he'd be a stronger opponent in November |
| 1:03.0 | to the Democratic nominee, James Telerico, |
| 1:05.0 | than Attorney General, General Paxton, |
| 1:07.0 | who has a long history of alleged political, personal, and financial misconduct, all of which |
| 1:12.1 | he denies, some of which other Republican lawmakers have been calling attention to. |
| 1:18.0 | I think that the gentleman is going to be endorsed to reasonably be indicted for a felony, |
| 1:23.9 | and so that's obviously going to have implications in terms of how the Democrats attack. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, Maine Republican Susan Collins, described Paxton as, quote, an ethically challenged individual. She and Senator Bill Cassidy, who just heard from, spoke out a day after the president endorsed him on social media naturally, |
| 1:40.3 | posting that, quote, John Cornyn is a good man and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive |
| 1:45.4 | of me when times were tough. That move was the latest straw for some Senate Republicans last week |
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