President Donald Trump said he would “soon” endorse a candidate in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate and, in doing so, call on whomever he does not endorse to drop out of the race — though he did not specify whether he would back Sen. John Cornyn or Attorney General Ken Paxton.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the stakes of Texas’ Senate race in November are too high to allow the Cornyn-Paxton contest to go on. The two Republicans finished just over one point apart in Tuesday’s primary, but neither reached the majority threshold to win outright, forcing a May 26 overtime round.
“The Republican primary race for the United States Senate in the Great State of Texas, a State I LOVE and won 3 times in Records Numbers (the HIGHEST vote ever recorded, by far!!!), cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer,” Trump wrote. “IT MUST STOP NOW!”
