{"id":151637,"date":"2026-05-19T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151637"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:30:26","slug":"trump-backs-paxton-over-cornyn-for-texas-senator-in-shock-endorsementunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151637","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Paxton over Cornyn for Texas senator in shock endorsementUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state\u2019s Republican Senate primary shortly after early voting began in an increasingly personal and expensive run-off against incumbent Senator John Cornyn.<br \/>\n\u201cKen Paxton has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next United States Senator from the Great State of Texas \u2013 KEN PAXTON WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!,\u201d Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe timing of the move came as a shock, with early voting already&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3354148\/trump-backs-paxton-over-cornyn-texas-senator-shock-endorsement?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state\u2019s Republican Senate primary shortly after early voting began&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151637"}],"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=151637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}