{"id":19292,"date":"2026-02-24T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-democrat-winning-senate-race-in-texas-would-be-first-crack-in-the-red-wall\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:22:39","slug":"cornyn-democrat-winning-senate-race-in-texas-would-be-first-crack-in-the-red-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-democrat-winning-senate-race-in-texas-would-be-first-crack-in-the-red-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn: Democrat winning Senate race in Texas would be &#8216;first crack in the red wall&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. John Cornyn on Monday said a Democrat taking his Texas seat would be &ldquo;the first crack in the red wall&rdquo; as he raises alarm about the state&rsquo;s competitive GOP primary. The incumbent said that either Democrat contender &mdash; James Talarico or Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) &mdash; &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; has a chance of winning in&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5752512-cornyn-warns-texas-crack-red-wall\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. John Cornyn on Monday said a Democrat taking his Texas seat would be &ldquo;the first crack in the red wall&rdquo; as he raises alarm about the state&rsquo;s competitive GOP primary. The incumbent said that either Democrat contender &mdash; James Talarico or Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) &mdash; &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; has a chance of winning in&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292","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=19292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}