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Morning Digest: Paxton demolishes Cornyn in Texas Senate GOP leaders are about to learn if their new Senate nominee is as toxic as they've long feared. Jeff Singer May 27 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. (Credit: Ken Paxton site) Leading Off TX-Sen Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton  defeated Sen. John Cornyn  in a 64-36 landslide in Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff, an outcome that Senate GOP leaders fear could cost their party control of a crucial Senate seat and divert much-needed money from other battlegrounds. Paxton will now take on state Rep. James Talarico, who  won the Democratic nomination outright in March , in what will be one of the most closely watched elections anywhere in the country. Lone Star State Democrats were already hoping that Donald Trump’s poor approval ratings nationwide and  Talarico’s strong fundraising  would give them an opening to score their first statewide victory since 1994, even befo...