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David Smith in Dallas

America’s ugliest primary? Texas Republican infighting could hand Senate seat to Democrat

a composite image shows a man on the left walking outside and a man on the right walking while speaking onstage
John Cornyn, left, and Ken Paxton, right, will run off on Tuesday in their Republican Senate primary. Composite: Getty Images, Bloomberg

Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, takes on four-term incumbent John Cornyn on Tuesday in the ugliest primary election of the year. The winner of the Republican Senate runoff in Texas will contest November’s general election against Democrat James Talarico.

Paxton and Cornyn have spent months coveting the most valuable endorsement in Republican politics: Donald Trump. Last week, scandal-plagued Paxton got it, with the US president describing him as “a true Maga warrior”.

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