Developing: Texas AG Ken Paxton Lags Behind RINO John Cornyn in Texas Republican Senate Primary – UPDATE: Senate Race will Advance to Runoff

Attorney General Ken Paxton and Senator John Cornyn

MAGA Texas Attorney General is expected to win the Texas Republican Senate primary today according to the Polymarket Poll.

Paxton, a staunch conservative and MAGA favorite is leading in the Polymarket Poll over RINO John Cornyn by 60 Points!

Graph displaying Texas Republican Senate primary winner projections for March 3, 2026, showing Ken Paxton leading with 81%, followed by John Cornyn at 20%.

Paxton is well known for fighting election fraud in the state of Texas.

Ken Paxton also filed the lawsuit in 2020 contesting the election in four states where Biden reportedly defeated President Trump with mysterious late-night ballot drops. 126 US representatives supported Paxton’s case. 23 states joined Paxton and Texas in the lawsuit.

The Supreme Court refused to take on the case.

The Texas primaries are being held today.

UPDATE: Attorney General Paxton lags behind RINO John Cornyn in the Texas Senate Primary.

But Paxton is catching up to the old RINO.
Via NBC.
Republican primary election results showing John Cornyn leading with 42.9% of votes, followed by Ken Paxton at 40.5% and Wesley Hunt at 13.1%.

UPDATE: Ken Paxton is losing his lead in the Polymarket poll.

Graph showing the Texas Republican Senate primary candidates Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, and Dawn Buckingham, with their projected winning probabilities and trading volumes as of March 3, 2026.

UPDATE: Since neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote there will be a runoff election for the Republican Senate race.

Via Grok: In Texas elections, a runoff election is triggered when no candidate receives a majority (more than 50%, or 50% plus one vote) of the votes in the initial election for an office that requires a majority vote to win.This rule comes directly from the Texas Election Code (Section 2.021), which states that if no candidate receives the vote necessary to be elected in an election requiring a majority vote, a runoff election is required.

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