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Texas Senate seat fight heads to runoff after Republicans fail to secure required votes

4 mars 2026 à 05:47

Neither Ken Paxton or John Cornyn captured 50% of the vote in Texas, forcing another poll in May

A bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday.

In Texas, a primary runoff is declared if neither candidate are able to capture 50% of the vote. Paxton and Cornyn will now face that election on 26 May.

Texas votes in high-stakes primaries in test of appetite for change under Trump

The Guardian

Par : Lauren Gambino in Austin

3 mars 2026 à 14:00

Nominees for key Senate seat to be set while voters choose in congressional contests reshaped by GOP gerrymander

The first votes of the 2026 midterm cycle will be cast on Tuesday, with a pair of high-stakes US Senate primaries in Texas that will test both parties’ appetite for political change in the Trump era.

Voters across the state will decide their nominees for a critical Senate seat, as well as for several key congressional contests reshaped by a mid-decade gerrymander sought by Donald Trump to preserve the GOP’s fragile House majority.