On the horizon on the Senate in Texas, Paxston is preparing to challenge Corn
Ken Pakston, the Texas Public Prosecutor, is preparing to challenge Senator John Corn in what could be more and most expensive for the Republican party in the 2026 elections.
In an interview on Tuesday in Dallas, Mr. Pakston Tebeto, close to announcing himself as a candidate, presented a kind of legislation he would first suggest if he was elected to the Senate – tax cuts – and described why he felt that he was able to do more in Washington, DC, more than Texas.
“I just think there are a lot of things that you can do at the federal level,” said Mr. Buckston. “Trump can use help and has a supporter member, not embarrassed.”
When he was asked how he made his decision to run, Mr. Pakston began answering the question. He was then reminded by a campaign advisor that he had not yet decided to operate it.
“Sahih,” said Mr. Buckston.
The possibility of a preliminary existence between Mr. Pakston and Mr. Corn is growing in recent months. This may be the biggest electoral confrontation so far in the ongoing war between the ancient guard of the Republican Party in Texas and the rise of the right -wing social conservative conservatives that are in line with Mr. Pakston and President Trump.
The clash on the horizon was among the worst secrets kept in the Texas policy.
“Good luck with the introductory elections, John,” Collin Alared publishedA former Democratic representative in Dallas, who stabbed Senator Ted Cruz in vain last year and said he was considering entering the Senate race for the year 2026.
Mr. Buckston, now in his third term, was increasingly frank in his criticism of Mr. Corn, and mocked him on social media and during a recent interview With Taker Carlson.
The Public Prosecutor and Legal Fires were moved in his thinking in the Senate, which is managed by the internal Republican polling, which shows him a great advantage among the party’s main voters.
A poll and Lee & Associates, a company used by the Trump campaign, found that Mr. Pixon leads a margin of 25 percentage points on Mr. Corn, and grew by drawing Mr. Corn’s messages as a more moderate candidate.
The poll, conducted by Mr. Buckston, about two months ago, showed his victory against a Democrat in the general elections, but with a smaller margin.
Alignment of internal polling results With a non -partisan poll From the University of Houston in February, it appears that a greater number of Republicans “will definitely think about voting for Mr. Buckston more than Mr. Corn, and that Mr. Pakston was more positively seen than Mr. Corn among Republican voters.
Mr. Cornene’s campaign did not make him available to conduct an interview.
Mr. Cornene, 73, was in the state’s policy for more than three decades. He was elected to the former Public Council of Texas and the state’s Supreme Court judge, and was first elected in the Senate in 2002. During that time, Texas turned into a very Republican, and the party’s preliminary elections grew increasingly, as the winner won the victory in the general elections in each state level.
With the presence of the ancient old guard from the age of the province’s business in Texas, Mr. Corn was seen as a person who might have been supposed to be the majority leader of the Senate. But after the retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky from this position, Mr. Corni lost to Senator John Thun from South Dakota last year. Mr. Corn is no longer in the Republican leadership.
And his willingness to work sometimes across the corridor, including on a package of weapons control legislation that was approved in the wake of the worst shooting of schools in Uvalde in 2022, many conservatives were angry.
Approval classifications between conservatives Decrease at that time. He was formulated loudly while appearing at the Republican Republican Conference in Texas that year.
Mr. Buckston, 62, recalled that at the conference – he was waiting to speak – and watching Mr. Corn conveying his speech amid screaming.
The prosecutor said, “I clicked for me,” the public prosecutor said. “I knew he had lost contact with voters.”
Mr. Corn officially announced his campaign to be re -elected late last month With video This heavily bowed on his actions on behalf of Mr. Trump.
“In the first term of President Trump, I was a Republican whip, as I made votes for his largest victory,” Mr. Corn said in the video. “I am now running for his re -election and asking for your support, so I can take President Trump where we stopped.”
Senator recently published a picture of himself reading “The Art of the Deal”, Mr. Trump’s book. “Impressive,” The post said.
For his part, Mr. Buckston used his office to support Mr. Trump and support the president’s efforts to enforce immigration, and in 2020, he was suing the election results in four sinking states. The Supreme Court threw the case.
In response to a question about how, as a member of the potential Senate, he might deal with an effort by Mr. Trump to stay in office after his second term, Mr. Buckston said he was not sure.
He said, “I understand that there are two constitutional periods, but I am not an expert in that.” “It may come or not appear. But he must decide that he will do a third term. Then we deal with the case.”
The president’s support will be a pivotal moment in the unprepared race.
In his interview with the Times at the Dallas Social Club, Mr. Buckston said that he was already talking to people in the orbit of the president on this topic.
He said, “I did not talk to him directly.” “I spoke to people around him. They are completely aware of this constant possibility.”
He added that he heard “nothing negative, this is definitely.”
In fact, things were looking for Mr. Pakston recently.
For years, he was fighting interrelated investigations into corruption in his actions as a public lawyer and accusing a state separate from the fragrances of securities. But he appeared victorious, as they survived the trial of the Senate in Texas in 2023 and reached a settlement last year in his criminal indictment, which included paying a restoration but not recognizing any violations.
“This is not the way to do in our country,” said Mr. Paxon. “If I am elected, I don’t care if I am democratic, and the most liberal democratic, it should not happen to you more than it should happen to me.”
Mr. Buckston said that his decision to officially announce his challenge was based on whether he believed that he would have enough money to take over the current Senate. He said that about $ 20 million should do so.
The respondents in the internal Fabrizio survey, obtained by the New York Times, were not aware of the legal and moral questions that followed Mr. Pakston in most of his career.
When the respondents were asked about the issues and procedures they were more associated with with Mr. Pakston, the upper responses included “border security” as well as “corruption/fraud/fraud/liar”.
For Mr. Corn, the higher term associated with its challenges through the increasingly Republican elementary voters in Texas confirmed: “Renault” – meaning, the Republican by name only.