Cornyn, Paxton Head to Runoff in GOP Texas Senate Primary

DALLAS—Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will advance to a runoff in the Texas Republican Senate primary race after neither candidate managed to achieve 50 percent of the vote. The Associated Press called the race around 10:50 p.m. ET on March 3, with 60 percent of the vote counted. A third hopeful, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas), claimed 12.9 percent, knocking him out of contention. Together with a Democratic contest between Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and state Rep. James Talarico, it became the most expensive Senate primary in history, according to advertising support data aggregated by AdImpact. Republican spending was dominated by almost $70 million in support of Cornyn, a former member of Senate leadership who has been in the chamber for over two decades....