{"id":14485,"date":"2025-10-16T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-and-paxton-rake-in-millions-in-expensive-texas-senate-primary-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:21:07","slug":"cornyn-and-paxton-rake-in-millions-in-expensive-texas-senate-primary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-and-paxton-rake-in-millions-in-expensive-texas-senate-primary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn and Paxton rake in millions in expensive Texas Senate primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&rsquo; GOP Senate primary is widely expected to be a bruising and costly fight &mdash; and so far the money race is highly competitive between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn&rsquo;s political operation hauled in roughly $3.4 million in the third quarter across his campaign and two joint fundraising committees&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/15\/congress\/cornyn-paxton-campaign-fundraising-00611047\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&rsquo; GOP Senate primary is widely expected to be a bruising and costly fight &mdash; and so far the money race is highly competitive between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn&rsquo;s political operation hauled in roughly $3.4 million in the third quarter across his campaign and two joint fundraising committees&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}