UPDATE 2-Trump backs hardliner Ken Paxton in critical Texas US Senate race runoff
Published on: May 19, 2026, 10:04 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Trump in March said he would ask the candidate he did not endorse to drop out of the race, which has been one of the nation's costliest U.S. Senate primary contests. The victor of the runoff will face off against Democratic nominee James Talarico, a state lawmaker and Presbyterian seminarian who has explicitly appealed to independents and moderates in a state that has long been dominated by Republicans.
