Longtime Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are projected to be heading to a costly runoff to earn the Republican Senate nomination in Texas after no one won more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday.
Rep. Wesley Hunt, who entered the race late but whose candidacy represented a mounting challenge for Cornyn, came in third, disqualifying him from the runoff. Voters will take to the polls again on May 26.
“I refuse to allow a flawed, self-centered and shameless candidate like Ken Paxton to risk everything we’ve worked so hard to build over these many years, there is simply too much at stake in this midterm election for our state and for our country,” Cornyn said at a press conference after polls closed Tuesday night.