Wesley Hunt announces the race for the Texas Senate in the Republican Primary Battle

The Republican representative Wesley Hunt of Texas announced on Monday that he presented himself in the Senate, jumping in an already bitter battle between the outgoing senator John Cornyn and the Attorney General of the Challenger of Texas Ken Paxton.

“The race for the American Senate in Texas must be more than a small quarrel between two men who have spent months negotiating beards,” Hunt said in a statement when he launched his campaign. “With my candidacy, this race will finally concern what is most important – Texas.”

The entry of Hunt into the race reveals the warmth of an already fuel battle between Cornyn, which appeared in 2026 for a fifth term of six years representing the Texas of the Red State in the Senate, and Paxton, Maga Firebrand which is an ally of President Donald Trump.

Hunt, a West Point graduate who stole Apache helicopters during his army service and an upward magazine who is in his second mandate representing a safe republican district in the Houston region, stressed in his declaration: “My file speaks more than the words. I am the most regularly conservative legislator representing Texas at the Congress.”

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The Wesley Hunt representative of Texas speaks to the Milwaukee National Republican Convention, Wisconsin on July 15, 2024. (Mike Segar – Reuters)

Cornyn, who is supported by the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune and the Senate National Republican Committee, dragged Paxton two -digit at the start of the summer.

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But Cornyn has reduced the voting gap in recent weeks, thanks in part to a huge advertising blitz by allies who have highlighted the many controversies that have beat Paxton in the last decade.

Trump, whose approval would have a major impact in the primary battle of Texas, has remained neutral to date.

The Republican representative Wesley Hunt of Texas opened a campaign office of the 2024 Trump campaign in Philadelphia, June 4, 2024. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Hunt, stressing his support from Trump while the president of the time, then the president, launched his return from the White House in 2024, boasted that “I was the first person in the country to approve President Trump, and I remained firm in my commitment to the people of Texas”.

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Hunt had thought about the Senate for months and sources confirmed to Fox News earlier this year that the Congress member had pleaded for Trump’s political team that he was the only person who could gain both a GOP primary and a general election.

The Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas presents himself at his re -election in 2026 for a fifth term of six years in the American Senate. (Reuters)

And a great aligned PAC spent big dollars this summer to increase the recognition of the name of Hunt through the state of Texas.

Paxton’s advisor Nick Maddux, in a statement to Fox News, said that “the primaries are good for our party and our voters, and Paxton and Hunt both know that the Texans deserve better than the faulty anti-top file of John Cornyn”.

But Cornyn Campaign’s main advisor, Matt Mackowiak, argued in a statement that “the representative Wesley Hunt is a legend in his own mind. No one is happier this morning than the national democrats who watch Wesley pursue his quest quixotic for relevance, cost tens of millions of dollars that will endanger the Trump Trump.”

Hunt’s entry into the nomination race of the GOP could prevent the winner of the primary next March from winning the majority of votes, which would trigger a runoff two and a half months later.

The Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, seen at the National Republican Convention of Fiserv Forum de Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, July 16, 2024, is essential to challenge the Senator of the GOP John Cornyn in the 2026 elections. (Hannah Beier / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Democrats hope for a Paxton’s victory in primary school, which, according to them, would make the general elections of next year more competitive.

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It has been almost four decades that a democrat won an election in the Senate in Texas. You must return to the victory in re -election of 1988 at the time. Lloyd Bentsen.

The former representative Colin Allred, who lost the elections in the Senate last November in Texas against the Conservative Senator of Fire-Brand, Ted Cruz, of more than 8 points, presents himself for the Democratic appointment of 2026, as well as the representative of the elevation of the star of the State of Texas James Talarico and the former astronaut Terry Virts.