US EditionTrump heads to Texas, where 3 friends are battling it out in the Senate Republican primary
Trump promotes his energy and economic policies alongside all three GOP Senate candidates in a Texas primary race with over $63 million spent on campaigns, officials said.
- Ahead of Tuesday's primary, President Donald Trump will visit the Port of Corpus Christi with three GOP candidates, promoting policies days before the vote.
- Ahead of Tuesday's primary, the race has become 'viciously personal,' with all three candidates working to highlight ties to Trump as Cornyn's campaign and allied groups have spent more than $63 million since last fall.
- Campaigns are leaning on imagery of Trump, even as he signals neutrality, with ads showing Paxton and Hunt with him and Cornyn running pro-Trump ads since last year.
- The primary’s winner will face Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in a district redrawn to favor a Republican, affecting the GOP's effort to hold congressional majorities, with leaders urging Trump to endorse Cornyn.
- If no candidate reaches 50% in Tuesday’s primary, the top two will advance to a May 26 runoff, while Ken Paxton, who beat impeachment in 2023, remains shadowed by personal allegations.
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President Donald Trump seems unable to choose among his friends in the Republican primaries for the Texas Senate. Thus, when he travels to the state on Friday for his first trip after the State of the Union Discourse, where he plans to promote his energy and economic policies, Trump will have the three candidates in the competitive race alongside him, just a few days before his party casts its votes in the primaries. Senator John Cornyn is runni…
Trump looms large in Texas as GOP gears up for Senate primary
President Trump is looming large over Texas as the Lone Star State’s GOP gears up for competitive primaries next week. The president is set to stop in Corpus Christi on Friday, just days after his State of the Union address and as Texas voters cast their ballots in a high-stakes, three-way Republican primary race for Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) seat in the [...]
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Trump heads to Texas, where 3 supporters are battling it out in the Senate Republican primary
President Donald Trump is heading to Texas, his first trip after his State of the Union address. The Republican president plans to talk Friday about his energy and economic policies.
All Three Texas GOP Senate Hopefuls to Join Trump
“All three Republicans in the Texas Senate race will have one more chance to get a surprise endorsement from President Donald Trump as they shake up their pre-primary plans to join him in Corpus Christi on Friday,” Semafor reports. “Trump likes to keep Republicans (and everybody else) guessing, and could easily utter something on Friday that nudges Election Day voters toward a candidate. His primary-season message is that loyalty, not incumbency…
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