{"id":71183,"date":"2026-05-20T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/how-ken-paxton-courted-donald-trump-and-won-his-endorsement-cnn\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:33:00","slug":"how-ken-paxton-courted-donald-trump-and-won-his-endorsement-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/how-ken-paxton-courted-donald-trump-and-won-his-endorsement-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ken Paxton courted Donald Trump and won his endorsement &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxQZWlWRS1zVkxmWjk0bTFrZUFyT1E1dzNGVDc0c0pkX3FocC1tQ2RtSlRJMkkyX1ZBQjE0eTMwYWc0a29LMGlCbFpocnBmbFVrcUhrdDhfeWY4azlWNmFKS0pUUEhfZkNTY1l1dHBsVzZKZlMyQ1ZaOXRDZHAyYWlLOGt5N2M5V3RJdW1pblB5c3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How Ken Paxton courted Donald Trump and won his endorsement<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CNN<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxQXy1jY1M1dTV4RnBnQXdYOVZYSjFXcmdMQVlHajMxOGQ0ODhvb1lRaFVJZTYyWmNBYTZaUVhiNUhxVUlCQzd3OFV6Y05sY2lzS1FRTjZRWUtlWkhZTnA1X0x2ZVN1dWt5N1FLeHhxZmN6Y0RoNFpHV0FDOGdFdjIxbnBodWRaUnd2eTl2Z2lPZ25NeWxaQjU4Qk43Y3lobndTa3l2aFV3?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\">Dallas 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\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxOQ1JKM0F2LVdMbFhzWWZaSmVZQjZUTjFZVEhBbHpBZThHemVUNDY3dFVQUmxzck8zVm55SGh6RGlXQUMzTm5BTnQ0X1ltRkJ6M3lFZTc5Q1JaRGZuUjZ6cWlsQjY3aUF3Rm50UkNZVVo4TWd6cW1kcUdVZDI5blZLVTNKS00?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s revenge spree stuns Senate Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Axios<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxPNkQ1LXluSi1LUXE0ZFFZMmdoV3FQcU5VN0trazcycG03MDl1bE5CQUE4Uzl4SXZ6c3dxZUZfVEFBNXoxdnp0cHVZN2s5RkFrX3VZSmpocmp0YWx3UndiRzNhTU5nM1VxMjcxZEFXUERpeTVodFVzUnRvdzdudFZNcDdySlV5bjZaQ3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">In Texas, Trump made one of the dumbest political decisions of his presidencies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Boston Globe<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Ken Paxton courted Donald Trump and won his endorsement&nbsp;&nbsp;CNN Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn&nbsp;&nbsp;Dallas&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/how-ken-paxton-courted-donald-trump-and-won-his-endorsement-cnn\/\" 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-71183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71183","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=71183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}