{"id":149769,"date":"2026-04-16T02:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149769"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:15:28","slug":"cornyn-heads-into-texas-senate-runoff-with-more-money-than-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149769","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn heads into Texas Senate runoff with more money than Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn boasts a significantly larger war chest than his primary opponent, putting the embattled incumbent in a stronger financial position ahead of the May runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn ended the first quarter of the year with more than $8 million in cash on hand, compared with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s $2.6 million in the bank, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornyn-Paxton face-off has grown nasty and highly personal as Republicans grow uneasy about beating James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/15\/congress\/senate-democrats-talarico-ossoff-fundraising-numbers-00872685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised an extraordinary $27 million<\/a> last quarter and has about $9.9 million cash on hand. President Donald Trump has so far declined to endorse in the race, despite teasing a pick for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn\u2019s joint fundraising committees comprised the vast majority of his roughly $9 million fundraising haul. Paxton reported raising $2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/15\/congress\/cornyn-paxton-texas-senate-fundraising-00875564\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn boasts a significantly larger war chest than his primary opponent, putting the embattled incumbent in a stronger financial position ahead of the May&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}