Posted on 06/04/2025 5:34:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) by double digits in the latest poll of the 2026 Senate GOP primary.
Paxton garnered 50 percent of the vote compared to Cornyn’s 28 percent in an UpOne Insights survey of Republican voters, which was first reported in Punchbowl News.
In another tough result for Cornyn, only 27 percent of those polled wanted to see him reelected while 54 percent indicated they wanted someone new. Cornyn, who has been in office since 2002, has a lifetime conservative scorecard of 64 percent, according to Heritage Action.
The Texas Senator fares even worse in Conservative Review’s Liberty Score, which gives him a failing grade of 54 percent.
UpOne Insights pollster Robert Blizzard conducted the poll of 600 Republican primary voters on May 27-28 on behalf of the Educational Freedom Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for school choice programs.
A recent survey by the Senate Leadership Fund, a GOP leadership-aligned super PAC, also found the Cornyn trailing Paxton by double digits. While the Senate Leadership Fund backs Cornyn, its poll “found the incumbent down 16 points in a survey conducted from April 27 to May 1,” Punchbowl News reported.
Paxton also had a higher favorability rating of 65 percent versus Cornyn’s 48 percent.
In a recent interview, the Texas Senator attributed his poor showing in the polls to a “primarily name identification” issue, but as Punchbowl News notes, only 7 percent of Texas GOP voters hadn’t heard of Cornyn, per the UpOne Insights poll, while 5 percent had not heard of Paxton.
We need more RINO hunters like Paxton.
Hitting that important 50%.
Great! Now do Thom Tillis.
Does Texas have an open primary?
yes please.
> Does Texas have an open primary?<
Yes it does, sadly.
Cornyn should go out at the ‘top of his game’ instead of dicking up a primary. We are so tired of his commercials every six years touting his conservatism. This year he’s claiming he votes with Trump 99% of the time.
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My bet is that as soon as Cornyn loses the primary, he will do everything he can to make sure Paxton loses to the Dem.
I expect lots of lawfare against Paxton. Especially from the RINOs in Texas government.
I hope we can get rid of Cornyn. He can’t be trusted to stay off of the RAT side of issues.
Don’t forget that CornHole supported the Rino TX congress members who voted to impeach AG Paxton
“ I expect lots of lawfare against Paxton. ”
I expect physical violence on him and his family.
Lawfare is so 2024
A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.
Another update on the Paxton/Cornyn race, this time among Republican voters.
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Cornyn has done Nothing for Texas.
He is a Gun Grabber and self enriching toad.
Cornyn Grifter Deluxe.
Louis gohmert went after him a few years ago. Big smear. Went no where Louis is gone from view.
I’m not worried about beating Cornyn, it’s the Democratic candidate we have to beat.
It’s probably true considering they haven’t done a thing to put anything on trumps desk for signature.
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