Paxton defeats Cornyn.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, Texas voters participated in a slate of primary runoff elections, including a highly publicized Republican Senate primary between state Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Paxton defeated Cornyn by a 27.6-point margin and will go on to face state Rep. James Talarico (D) in the general election.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.9 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the 26 Texas primary runoffs that happened yesterday on Tuesday. We're going to break down exactly what |
| 0:40.0 | happened in a few of the big elections. And then I'm going to share my take, mostly focused on |
| 0:45.9 | what happened in the Senate race. And it's a good one. As we jump in, I'm going to hand it off |
| 0:51.2 | to Audrey Moorhead, our associate editor, who is hosting the show |
| 0:55.2 | with me today. Audrey's going to share the main stories, some views from the left and the right, |
| 0:59.1 | and I'll be back in a little bit. |
| 1:07.1 | Thanks, Isaac. First up, we have today's quick hits. |
| 1:11.1 | Number one, President Donald Trump will hold a cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the latest in the Iran War and peace negotiations. |
| 1:20.3 | Number two, the South Carolina State Senate voted down a measure to adopt a new congressional map that would have eliminated the state's single-majority |
| 1:27.9 | black district, which is represented by U.S. Representative James Clyburn, a Democrat. |
| 1:33.1 | Separately, a circuit court judge blocked a request to temporarily pause the use of a new Florida |
| 1:38.1 | congressional map designed to increase the state's Republican representation in the House. |
| 1:43.5 | Opponents of the new map said they |
| 1:45.1 | will appeal the decision. Number three, a chemical tank at a paper mill in Washington State |
| 1:50.8 | imploded, killing at least one person, injuring nine, and leaving nine others unaccounted for. |
| 1:57.3 | Number four. President Donald Trump appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to the |
| 2:02.5 | Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, an advisory committee on artificial |
| 2:07.7 | intelligence policy that includes several White House advisors and high-profile technology |
| 2:12.4 | executives. |
| 2:14.2 | Number five. U.S. Southern Command announced that a strike on a boat allegedly trafficking |
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