Paxton Beats Cornyn | How Deep Does the Fraud Go? | Pratt Wants ICE Out | 5/27/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Ken Paxton, James Talarico, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Spencer Pratt, and Zohran Mamdani headline today's A.M. Update. Ken Paxton defeats incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate runoff, setting up a November race against Democrat James Talarico, and Aaron plays a clip of Talarico using his Christian faith to defend abortion access and takes it apart piece by piece. JD Vance chairs a bipartisan anti-fraud roundtable with 15 state attorneys general including Connecticut and Oregon, and Stephen Miller expands on his claim that rooting out welfare fraud at scale could balance the federal budget, tracing the collapse of the honor system to decades of mass immigration from cultures that don't share it. Zohran Mamdani threatens to seize and redistribute property from negligent New York City landlords, and Aaron points out the city's own regulations are what drove the neglect in the first place. A resurfaced Spencer Pratt video from February shows him saying he does not want ICE in LA either, and then explaining exactly why Karen Bass is the one who keeps inviting them in. A new Christian mobile carrier called Radiant Mobile launches on the T-Mobile network with a network-level firewall blocking pornography and other harmful content, tied to research showing pornography is a problem for 74% of Gen Z men. Aaron closes with the story of biking 36 miles to work and back on a 90-degree day, and the fountain Dr Pepper from Casey's that almost saved his life at mile 34.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 27, 2026, another incumbent out. |
| 0:03.9 | Also, how deep does the fraud go? |
| 0:06.7 | And Spencer Pratt wants ICE out of L.A. |
| 0:10.5 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:15.1 | Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has defeated Senator John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomination. |
| 0:20.4 | It's the latest challenger backed by President Trump to unseat an incumbent. Paxton has defeated Senator John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomination. |
| 0:24.5 | It's the latest challenger backed by President Trump to unseat an incumbent. |
| 0:29.8 | Paxton will face Democratic State Representative James Tala Rico in a November race. |
| 0:32.3 | That could become key, some people think. |
| 0:33.9 | More on Tala Rico in just a little bit. |
| 0:37.9 | Trump endorsed Paxton last week, giving a last minute boost and his bid to oust Cornyn, who has been in the Senate since 2003. Cornyn and Paxton faced off Tuesday in a head-to-head |
| 0:44.1 | runoff after no other candidate on more than 50% of the vote in the initial multi-candidate |
| 0:48.7 | March primary. So this is yet another example. Three now in the last basically week and a half where a Trump |
| 0:56.4 | endorsed candidate has ousted a as sitting incumbent and not just any sitting incumbent. We're |
| 1:02.6 | talking about Cassidy in Louisiana, who was there for a number of terms. Thomas Massey, |
| 1:08.7 | a representative from Kentucky, who had served in Congress |
| 1:11.1 | for a number of terms. And now John Cornyn in Texas, who has served there since 2003. |
| 1:16.3 | The best thing that I can say about John Cornyn, this latest one, is that he's not been vicious |
| 1:20.9 | enough. He's not been as active as we would need somebody from the state of Texas to be |
| 1:26.2 | as a voice in the Senate. |
| 1:28.9 | And Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, has been just a bulldog in that position. |
| 1:35.3 | So I do think this one is an upgrade. |
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