{"id":2607569,"date":"2026-05-27T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-will-rally-around-paxton-lauren-green\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:44:35","slug":"republicans-will-rally-around-paxton-lauren-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-will-rally-around-paxton-lauren-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans will &#8216;rally&#8217; around Paxton: Lauren Green"},"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\">14<\/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%2Frepublicans-will-rally-around-paxton-lauren-green%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=2607569&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>Lauren Green of the *Washington Examiner* says Republicans are likely to unify behind Texas Republican nominee Ken Paxton in the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-gop-picked-up-seats-in-house-picked-up-state-legislatures-picked-up-governorship-held-the-senate-but-sniffy-joe-won-not-a-chance\/\" title=\"IMPOSSIBLE: GOP Picked Up Seats in House, Picked Up State Legislatures, Picked Up Governorship, Held the ... -- But Sniffy Joe Won?... NOT A CHANCE\">general election<\/a>, even though some GOP figures had campaigned against him in the runoff. She argues the party\u2019s motivation is to prevent Democrat James Talarico from taking the seat and to protect the Republican majority.<\/p>\n<p>Green notes that Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the runoff, winning 63.8% of the vote, after which the National Republican Senatorial Committee backed Cornyn with attacks on Paxton\u2019s past, including his divorce and his impeachment for bribery and abuse of office. She also cites a report that the NRSC later began deleting posts critical of Paxton.<\/p>\n<p>She says Democrats will likely <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >echo similar attacks<\/a> while aiming to spend heavily in Texas, especially after Talarico reportedly raised more than $600,000 shortly after Paxton\u2019s victory. Green adds that increased spending in Texas could divert Republican resources from other races in more competitive states like Georgia, North Carolina, and Maine.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> congressional reporter <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/lgreen\/\">Lauren Green<\/a> said Republicans will \u201crally\u201d around Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ken-paxton\/\">Ken Paxton<\/a> in the Texas Senate race, despite those within the party campaigning against him in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the ...\u2019 Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail\u2019?\">runoff election<\/a> with four-term Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-cornyn\/\">John Cornyn<\/a> (R-TX). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese Republicans are going to rally behind Ken Paxton because they don\u2019t want someone like <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-talarico\/\">James Talarico<\/a> in the Senate. They want their Republican-led Senate or everything they can to protect that,\u201d Green said on <em>LiveNOW from Fox<\/em> Wednesday. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4584410\/maha-ken-paxton-warrior-gabrielle-etzel\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>MAHA sees Paxton as \u2018warrior\u2019 for its cause: Gabrielle Etzel<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4584311\/graham-platner-lead-susan-collins-9-points-maine-senate-poll\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Graham Platner leads Susan Collins by 9 points in Maine Senate race: Poll<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4584099\/cruz-texas-senate-talarico-for-granted-paxton\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Cruz warns Republicans shouldn\u2019t take Texas Senate race for granted<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paxton overwhelmingly <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4582071\/texas-senate-runoff-result-cornyn-paxton\/\">defeated<\/a> Cornyn in a runoff election for the Republican Senate nomination on Tuesday, earning 63.8% of the vote. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Republican Senatorial Committee supported Cornyn, releasing ads slamming Paxton and highlighting his controversial background to voters, specifically regarding his divorce on \u201cbiblical grounds\u201d and his 2023 impeachment for bribery and abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Paxton\u2019s victory, the NRSC quietly began deleting posts criticizing the Texas attorney general, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/27\/politics\/kfile-republicans-scrub-ken-paxton-attacks-texas-senate-race\">according to<\/a> CNN. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green said she believes Democrats will use these same attacks against Paxton, as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republicans\/\">Republicans<\/a> begin to attack Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs we\u2019ve already seen, Republicans have already started hammering home at James Talarico as well,\u201d she said. \u201cI think this general election is going to be just as gruesome as the primary was, but I do believe Democrats are prepared to pour a lot of money into it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the two hours following Paxton\u2019s primary win, Talarico received over <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4583186\/james-talarico-records-600000-haul-hours-after-ken-paxton-texas-primary-win\/\">$600,000 in donations<\/a> to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green highlighted Talarico\u2019s success at fundraising, adding that Democrats are now looking at Texas as a way to win back control of the Senate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDemocrats are looking more at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\">Texas<\/a>, and especially with Ken Paxton winning the nomination, they\u2019re going to be pouring a lot more into it, which means Republicans are going to have to pour a lot more into it,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4582701\/what-talarico-been-up-to-two-months-only-texas-senate-nominee\/\"><strong>WHAT HAS TALARICO DONE WITH HIS TWO MONTHS AS THE ONLY OFFICIAL TEXAS SENATE NOMINEE?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green said pouring more money into the Texas Senate race will take resources away from other contentious races. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[Republicans] have places like Maine to protect, they want to flip a seat in Georgia, they have to protect a seat in North Carolina. So spending money in a state that should be pretty solid red is going to pull away from those swing states they\u2019re already looking at pouring a lot of money into,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Examiner\u2019s Lauren Green says Republicans will \u201crally\u201d behind Ken Paxton in Texas Senate race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2607570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26147665147617.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38244,32085,37104],"class_list":["post-2607569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ken-paxton","tag-republican-party","tag-texas-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26147665147617.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607569","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\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607573,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607569\/revisions\/2607573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}