Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who received President Trump’s endorsement on Tuesday, has been accused of adultery by his wife of 38 years. He’s been indicted and cleared. And he’s been impeached and acquitted.
But none of that has stopped him from shaking up the U.S. Senate race in Texas, where he now seems poised to defeat Senator John Cornyn, the four-term incumbent, in a runoff next week.
“Ken Paxton has gone through a lot, in many cases, very unfairly, but he is a Fighter, and knows how to WIN,” Mr. Trump said in his endorsement.
Mr. Paxton, 63, has, in his quarter-century of public life, never lost an election. Despite his failures and faults, and in some ways because of them, he’s won crowded primaries and make-or-break runoffs.
If he wins again next week, he will face an ascendant and cash-flush Democrat, James Talarico.
Lauren McGaughy is the Texas politics correspondent for The New York Times, writing about the ways that policymakers in the second largest state are changing lives for their citizens and influencing American politics.
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