Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) will head to a runoff against Texas’s hard-right, scandal-ridden Attorney General Ken Paxton in a race that risks costing Republicans a Senate seat in a state where they haven’t lost one since 1988.
Neither candidate won a majority of the vote on Tuesday due to the late entrance of Houston Rep. Wesley Hunt, meaning the race will go to a runoff on May 26. Late Tuesday, Cornyn led the race in first place, while Paxton was placed in second.
