The Republican who won Texas’s Senate primary with Donald Trump’s backing is now hoping the president and Senate Republicans will help him keep the seat from falling into Democratic hands in the midterms.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a contentious primary against the incumbent senator, John Cornyn, and secured the GOP nomination in May. Since then, he’s been running neck and neck with Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, who led Paxton by six points in a poll from a Democratic-linked polling firm published on Thursday. And he says he needs Trump’s cash to put him over the finish line.
