{"id":2039834,"date":"2023-09-21T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-hints-at-running-for-senate-after-texas-acquittal-everythings-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:50:02","slug":"ken-paxton-hints-at-running-for-senate-after-texas-acquittal-everythings-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-hints-at-running-for-senate-after-texas-acquittal-everythings-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton hints at running for Senate after Texas acquittal: &#8216;Everything\u2019s on the table&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fken-paxton-hints-at-running-for-senate-after-texas-acquittal-everythings-on-the-table%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2039834&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton attacked state conservatives in his first remarks after the Senate acquitted him on charges of corruption and abuse of office, hinting at a potential run to replace Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). <\/p>\n<p> Paxton commented on a Senate 2026 bid in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, saying \u201ceverything\u2019s on the table\u201d for him when asked about the potential run. <\/p>\n<p> ANITA DUNN COURTS CONTROVERSY WHILE TAKING CHARGE IN BIDEN&#8217;S WHITE HOUSE <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI can\u2019t think of a single thing he\u2019s accomplished for our state or even for the country, let alone the fact that we have a massive invasion into our state, and he doesn\u2019t speak out against it,\u201d Paxton said in the interview posted on X, speaking about Cornyn. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen him propose legislation that significantly affects it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> On Saturday, Sept. 16., the Texas Senate acquitted Paxton of 16 articles of impeachment alleging corruption and bribery after a two-week impeachment trial. Paxton was impeached and suspended in May but was immediately reinstated as Texas Attorney General. <\/p>\n<p> Cornyn, who is a former Texas attorney general, was reelected to a fourth term in the Texas Senate in 2020. Cornyn called the allegations against Paxton \u201cvery deeply disturbing\u201d earlier this month, adding the trial was \u201cpainful to watch.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The attorney general was called on to resign over alleged drunkenness while leading the House in May, hours before the Texas House committee announced its investigation into Paxton\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/p>\n<p> The attorney general said he doesn&#8217;t think his legal troubles are over, with a looming hearing in October over an indictment on securities fraud charges eight years ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if they could, they&#8217;d put me in jail,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cI don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton attacked state conservatives in his first remarks after the Senate acquitted him on charges of corruption and abuse of office, hinting at a potential run to replace Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Paxton commented on a Senate 2026 bid in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, saying \u201ceverything\u2019s on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2039835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}