{"id":21400,"date":"2026-04-16T01:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-heads-into-texas-senate-runoff-with-more-money-than-paxton\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:47:06","slug":"cornyn-heads-into-texas-senate-runoff-with-more-money-than-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-heads-into-texas-senate-runoff-with-more-money-than-paxton\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn heads into Texas Senate runoff with more money than Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn boasts a significantly larger war chest than his primary opponent, putting the embattled incumbent in a stronger financial position ahead of the May runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn ended the first quarter of the year with more than $8 million in cash on hand, compared with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s $2.6 million in the bank, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornyn-Paxton face-off has grown nasty and highly personal as Republicans grow uneasy about beating James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/15\/congress\/senate-democrats-talarico-ossoff-fundraising-numbers-00872685\" target=\"_blank\">raised an extraordinary $27 million<\/a> last quarter and has about $9.9 million cash on hand. President Donald Trump has so far declined to endorse in the race, despite teasing a pick for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn\u2019s joint fundraising committees comprised the vast majority of his roughly $9 million fundraising haul. Paxton reported raising $2.2 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn boasts a significantly larger war chest than his primary opponent, putting the embattled incumbent in a stronger financial position ahead of the May runoff. Cornyn ended the first quarter of the year with more than $8 million in cash on hand, compared with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s $2.6 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21400","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\/21400","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=21400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}