{"id":7123,"date":"2026-10-16T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/16\/trump-blames-cornyn-rove-for-potential-paxton-senate-loss-in-high-stakes-texas-race\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:49:09","slug":"trump-blames-cornyn-rove-for-potential-paxton-senate-loss-in-high-stakes-texas-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/16\/trump-blames-cornyn-rove-for-potential-paxton-senate-loss-in-high-stakes-texas-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blames Cornyn, Rove for Potential Paxton Senate Loss in High-Stakes Texas Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has placed blame on Senator John Cornyn and Karl Rove for any potential loss by Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton. Trump accused them of hindering Paxton&#8217;s campaign against Democrat James Talarico in what has become a surprisingly competitive race.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Senate contest is now a key battleground in the 2026 midterms, with recent polls showing Talarico with a slight lead over Paxton. This situation is significant given Texas&#8217;s consistent Republican voting history.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/15\/trump-says-if-ken-paxton-loses-texas-senate-race-blame-cornyn-and-karl-rove.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has placed blame on Senator John Cornyn and Karl Rove for any potential loss by Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton. Trump accused them of hindering Paxton&#8217;s campaign against Democrat James Talarico in what has become a surprisingly competitive race. The Texas Senate contest is now a key battleground in the 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/261015105226-01-donald-trump-00000000.jpg?c=original","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_competition-2026-midterm-elections","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-george-w-bush","rifnote_executive-james-talarico","rifnote_executive-john-cornyn","rifnote_executive-kamala-harris","rifnote_executive-karl-rove","rifnote_executive-ken-paxton"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/261015105226-01-donald-trump-00000000.jpg?c=original","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}