{"id":70917,"date":"2026-05-19T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/trump-endorses-ken-paxton-in-texas-gop-primary-boosting-his-challenge-to-incumbent-sen-cornyn-ap-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:55:00","slug":"trump-endorses-ken-paxton-in-texas-gop-primary-boosting-his-challenge-to-incumbent-sen-cornyn-ap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/trump-endorses-ken-paxton-in-texas-gop-primary-boosting-his-challenge-to-incumbent-sen-cornyn-ap-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn &#8211; AP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxPMVJNb3MwYXJERkRoZ2RIWXVRUXRIdTZFQldZSXVKT3BGdHRGVHpYMmxKSnVVdjJjY1pHWEdmbXpKSkR4d0NUaHpzN2NYN1haTjIyNW8wYkVtR0pCWWNVTWQ0amxwZEVoaFd1Sl9nODBSUnFxNGt6V2ZLWWxzSnY4M0ZxcWFEekphOW9GdEZuOHpnbDMwMklUX0NTY0FxMFppQVY5QWFiSQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">AP News<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxQUGZZdWxIUUxEVVFZajRTN1FoQkZXMnNfX19abU9QSk5ZXzJ0UF8zeENRNVZSUkhEdU83SlhMTTUzNnA2eF9SSDBES3hqY1B5cGRZV0d2LWVScy1GeWM5bjVER3B6UTZaSlhkU21UMDVLRnM4dUlIVHpxaVFXTkpCbW9rdHBRSFVFSDVlQw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Senators Are Livid at Trump\u2019s Endorsement of Paxton<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxOVEFfYTlSZnJwQTZrOXROb19uQnJwVnpldVF2UFpRSmpfZzl0MHdWQmRxakJ4Z0hEdTFiY2JhUk5ORkFWNjlpb0lvOVJaMGYxUEh6VGJXRXBJMVlyc3NMZThvTDFNcHNJRmZfRmRYTUtfdGFsTEpLbFN1SzFESGc5VUNCVzJRRmxHcVdLWTFjU1BITHRLTjZSY2dPRndpWlVqT0tPZE5PQWN4OHNwSVNmbVdzc29RSnJJV3dHa0Z1NA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump, With Texas Endorsement, Shows He Can Still Surprise Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Bloomberg.com<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTFBmc0RGSnhiWUtKY202SXV3YndFdGRXcGdOS1VjeEltSkdiQUpybmdxVzdvWENRQjdPZGdnNFc0Z21CY1dfVGxoRk01ak11ZWxJbUsxeW9TOEFJbmhPZWFidWR5SmM0NmdxN1FJWjJ0VmFPLXVTYW9lRno1NEwzQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump endorses Paxton, upending Senate GOP plans in Texas race<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CNN<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxOZl83RWprV3lOY0xremFDQUpxTEFQVnFsVllIS0ZoaVpFbjhHQkVtREdON01vUzk2cVpUcG5LWDZoVFhmRXpnWkd3QmJNeWdhaHFmZVZjOTBIRk5pSEo2Y3ZId0pYeVdyclZiNFB0V3BZQURucm5kRm9GSG1YMEVfVlJTRdIBiAFBVV95cUxOYVpWT3IxX291Vzd0WGo2MkdKa1BkMEl0QkFvdDJnTjBGQmZrNGJ0RWJKQ01BMEs1TnA0WVB6WVYzc1I0bHdma0NaVjZUU1ptUTc3V2NTTm4xUWdhVHloN0tVb2Z2ZUNGeW9BaTh3ZHRUVnFiVGhxYW4zWTM3b0x3WWpiWTBpVXhz?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Republicans fume over Trump backing Paxton in Texas race<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Hill<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn&nbsp;&nbsp;AP News Republican Senators Are Livid at Trump\u2019s Endorsement of Paxton&nbsp;&nbsp;The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/trump-endorses-ken-paxton-in-texas-gop-primary-boosting-his-challenge-to-incumbent-sen-cornyn-ap-news\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}