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All In with Chris Hayes

Texas votes in high-stakes runoff elections

All In with Chris Hayes

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Politics, Senate, Policy, Climate Change, Election, President, Ms Now, Trump, Government, Democracy, Biden, Versant, Washington, News, Congress, Msnbc

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Primary day in Texas is here.

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0:00.0

Tonight on All-In. I have so much respect for the president and so appreciate his endorsement,

0:07.7

and I think it creates a sleigh bit of momentum. Primary day in Texas is here again.

0:14.5

Ken Paxton's flaws in the baggage she brings to the general election is going to be exploited

0:19.6

to the fullest by James Tala Rico.

0:23.4

Tonight, as polls begin to close, the high stakes of the Paxton-Cornan runoff in Texas,

0:28.4

plus how Trump's plan to redraw democracy ran into a surprise in South Carolina.

0:35.7

And neither my conscience nor my common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already

0:43.8

underway.

0:44.8

Then, Senator Andy Kim, I'm getting tear gassed outside an ICE detention facility, and Congressman

0:51.3

Rokana on growing frustration with Trump's corruption.

0:55.9

I didn't expect the corruption to be quite as, you know, widespread as it's been

1:01.9

and like the self-dealing and the lining of his and his family's pockets.

1:06.9

When all ends, starts right now.

1:13.6

Good evening from New York.

1:14.9

I'm Chris Hayes, and it's Tuesday during a primary season, which means it is election night in America once again.

1:20.8

Tonight, the marquee race is that runoff in the Republican primary for Senate in Texas,

1:26.1

the one that pits incumbent center, John Cornyn, who's been in the Senate for nearly Senate in Texas, the one that pits incumbent Senator John Cornyn,

1:28.8

who's been in the Senate for nearly 25 years, against the scandal-plagued state attorney

1:34.1

general Ken Paxton. Basically, all outside observers understand that Paxton's almost certainly

1:39.6

the weaker candidate for the general election. He certainly carries a lot more baggage.

1:44.9

He has been endorsed, of course, by Donald Trump, who thinks that Cornyn is insufficiently loyal to him. Also,

1:49.6

he likes the fact, I think, that Ken Paxton is AG was one of the leading attorneys general

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