{"id":23199,"date":"2026-05-24T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thom-tillis-ken-paxton-a-failure-would-be-anchor-on-gop-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:22:19","slug":"thom-tillis-ken-paxton-a-failure-would-be-anchor-on-gop-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thom-tillis-ken-paxton-a-failure-would-be-anchor-on-gop-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Tillis: Ken Paxton a &#8216;failure,&#8217; would be anchor on GOP Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), whom President Trump endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Senate GOP runoff in the Lone Star State. &ldquo;He is a failure. He doesn&#8217;t deserve to be in the U.S. Senate,&rdquo; Tillis told host Jake Tapper on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5893283-cornyn-paxton-runoff-texas\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), whom President Trump endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Senate GOP runoff in the Lone Star State. &ldquo;He is a failure. He doesn&#8217;t deserve to be in the U.S. Senate,&rdquo; Tillis told host Jake Tapper on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23199","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\/23199","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=23199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}