The GOP top senator reveals that he ended the gap in the alleged scandal of the heated opponent affair in the middle of the opponent

EXCLUSIVE – With only six months before the start of Texas, the primary season in the mid-term elections of 2026, the successful battle between the long-time republican senator John Cornyn and his Challenger of the GOP, the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, seems to be tightening.

Paxton, Maga Champion and long -standing ally of President Donald Trump who has been beaten over the past decade by several controversies, has benefited from a comfortable two figures on Cornyn during the survey at the start of the summer.

But the most recent surveys indicate a closer competition, because the two politicians in Texas Heavyweight are exploded in what turned into an expensive and bitterly brutal battle.

“While many in the media wrote the political necrology of Senator Cornyn in May and June, the current state of the breed depicts a very different image,” said a memo of the Cornyn campaign race which was published on Wednesday.

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The Memo The best political advisers in Cornyn, who were first divided with Fox News Digital, stresses that “the race has hooked considerably with the momentum on the side of our campaign, with a lot of room for continuous growth”.

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And the memo indicates what he describes as “Ken Paxton, terrible, horrible, not good, very bad summer”, which included the successful news that the woman of Paxton over 30 years old filed a divorce for “biblical terrains”, as well as reports alleged by Paxton committed mortgage fraud by claiming several properties as a primary residence on banking loans.

Paxton, in an interview Tuesday on Fox Business’ “The mornings with Maria,“Pushed the allegations and accused Cornyn of” absolutely lying “.

Texas Ken Paxton’s prosecutor general, seen during the 2024 National Republican Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the main republican senator John Cornyn in the 2026 elections. (Hannah Beier / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“John Cornyn does not tell the whole story. He indicates it to give the impression that something bad has happened,” Paxton told the host Maria Bartiromo.

Paxton also challenged the latest surveys, saying: “I don’t think it’s as close as” investigations suggest it.

“I think that Texas voters are quite intelligent, especially republican voters. In a primary, they know what John Cornyn did not do. They know what he has done,” he added.

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And Paxton said that the Texas Republicans “knew that he (Cornyn) had voted against them on the issues of the 2nd amendment. He was not a supporter of Donald Trump. He was not a border wall. He was against the problems that really care.

And Paxton promised that “we will have enough money to talk to voters about his file and my file”.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, the National Senatorial Republican Committee (NRSC), and the Senatorial Leadership Fund, the best Republicans in Senate Soupage, support Cornyn.

Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, seen at the American Capitol on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, presents himself to his re-election next year. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

But Trump, to date, remains neutral.

Paxton has highlighted in his Fox commercial interview that “I was a supporter of his (Trump) from the start and unlike John Cornyn, I was not freaked in the past two months because I thought it was something popular.”

“We are very different in our loyalty and our approach to President Trump,” he added.

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But Cornyn Campaign’s main advisor Matt Mackowiak, highlighting tightening surveys, has told Fox News “the reason is that the primary voters of Texas Gop learn more about Senator Cornyn’s vote with President Trump more than 99% of the time and the delivery of conservative victories for Texas.”

“We have a plan to win this race, and we execute it,” said Mackowiak.

The GOP representative, Wesley Hunt of Texas, speaks during the opening day of the National Republican Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 15, 2024. (Reuters / Mike Segar)

There is the possibility that another Republican could enter the primary of the Senate.

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Repr. Wesley HuntA star of Maga Montant who represents a district of the Houston region, has been thinking about a race for the Senate for months. Sources have confirmed to Fox News earlier this year that Hunt had pleaded for Trump’s political team that he was the only person who can gain both a GOP primary and a general election.