Texas Runoff Divides GOP; Dems Hope to Flip Senate Seat
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And out front next, it is election night in America. |
| 0:10.6 | Polls about to close in Texas where a bitter runoff race is dividing the Republican Party. |
| 0:16.1 | Did Trump overreach this time? |
| 0:18.1 | And is he about to give Democrats a chance to flip the Senate seat in Texas, |
| 0:23.5 | plus RFK Jr. and the snakes. The nation's top health official with his bare hands, rangling a pair |
| 0:29.4 | of snakes, squeezing their bodies in a video you have to see to believe. This is our HSA, Secretary Harry. |
| 0:37.2 | And South Carolina, Republicans defying Trump |
| 0:39.5 | tonight, rejecting his call to redraw the congressional map. Let's go out front. And good evening, |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Aaron Burnett, and welcome to a special edition of Outfront, Election Night in America, |
| 0:50.9 | as we are standing by for polls in Texas to close in the Senate runoff |
| 0:54.8 | race that is dividing the Republican Party. This is a race that is testing Trump's grip on the GOP |
| 1:00.7 | like never before. And that's saying something, right? Because yeah, we can all remember last week. |
| 1:05.1 | It was only a week ago when Massey went, bye-bye. Incumbent Senator John Cornyn right now is fighting |
| 1:10.4 | for his political survival |
| 1:11.7 | against his Trump-backed challenger Ken Paxton, the state's controversial, to say the least, |
| 1:16.4 | Attorney General. It is a remarkable turn for Cornyn. Cornyn was elected 24 years ago. He has never |
| 1:22.8 | lost an election in his life. This isn't a seat that, you know, would be really that challenged, |
| 1:29.3 | right? He's a respected Republican. And unlike Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who was just defeated |
| 1:33.9 | by a Trump-back candidate, Cornyn has been in lockstep of the president 100% of the time. |
| 1:38.7 | Literally, his voting record is almost 100% with Trump. Not taking Trump on Iran. Never mind, |
| 1:44.6 | Epstein. |
| 1:46.6 | But that apparently was not enough. |
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