{"id":23476,"date":"2026-06-01T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/paxton-set-to-meet-with-thune-after-cornyn-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:22:35","slug":"paxton-set-to-meet-with-thune-after-cornyn-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/paxton-set-to-meet-with-thune-after-cornyn-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton set to meet with Thune after Cornyn loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Sunday said he will meet with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R) after winning the GOP runoff to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.&nbsp; Since beating Cornyn, a four-term incumbent, Paxton says he&rsquo;s been in contact with Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-S.D&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5903466-texas-ag-ken-paxton-senate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Sunday said he will meet with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R) after winning the GOP runoff to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.&nbsp; Since beating Cornyn, a four-term incumbent, Paxton says he&rsquo;s been in contact with Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-S.D&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23476","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\/23476","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=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}