2026-05-26T09:00:07.722Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
共和党联邦参议员约翰·科宁为获得本党连任提名所进行的艰苦奋战将于周二落下帷幕，得州选民将前往投票站参加党内初选决选。
上周唐纳德·特朗普总统背书得州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，极大扭转了选情，令科宁陷入不利境地。
多场其他争议性决选凸显两党内部的深刻分歧，其中包括共和党针对总检察长职位的争夺战，以及三个国会众议院席位的民主党初选。
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共和党联邦参议员约翰·科宁为获得本党连任提名所进行的艰苦奋战将于周二落下帷幕，得州选民将前往投票站参加党内初选决选。
科宁与州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿的竞争此前被认为竞争激烈，直到一周前唐纳德·特朗普总统突然背书帕克斯顿，使其成为提名热门人选。
如今帕克斯顿已将重心转向中期选举，州众议员詹姆斯·塔莱科作为民主党候选人已准备就绪。科宁拒绝退出，仍在为周二的选举奋战，他辩称帕克斯顿获得提名将令共和党在11月失去参议院议席。
周二的选票上还有多场其他值得关注的竞选，展现了两大政党内部的深刻分歧。三位民主党众议员的政治前途，以及得州一个最重要的全州性职位的走向，都将在此决出结果。
以下是值得关注的看点：
随着帕克斯顿参选参议员，总检察长职位自2014年以来首次出现空缺。该职位在全国保守派运动中极具影响力，也是得州政坛迈向更高职位的跳板。
联邦众议员奇普·罗伊与州参议员梅斯·米德尔顿之间展开了激烈的决选对决。尽管特朗普未在两人中背书，双方就谁更拥护特朗普的立场展开了激烈交锋。
米德尔顿是一名油气行业继承人，自掏腰包竞选，他自称“MAGA梅斯”，并抓住罗伊作为保守派煽动者的形象——后者曾偶尔令特朗普不悦。米德尔顿指出，罗伊在2021年1月6日美国国会山遇袭事件后曾指责特朗普“显然存在可弹劾行为”，尽管罗伊当时投票反对弹劾特朗普。
罗伊在进入国会前曾担任多个知名法律职位，他反驳称米德尔顿缺乏担任州首席律师的经验。罗伊在竞选广告中强调了特朗普去年在灾难性洪水后访问得州时的表态，当时特朗普称罗伊“不好相处，但人品不错”。
“没错，我讨价还价很厉害，”罗伊在一则决选广告中说道，“因为我做的一切都是为了得州好。”
近期几天，特朗普的一些盟友大幅升级了对罗伊的攻击。特朗普三次出任得州竞选主席的得州副州长丹·帕特里克严厉抨击罗伊自称拥护特朗普的言论，特朗普顾问亚历克斯·布鲁瑟维茨于周五前往得州，为米德尔顿助选。
民主党内部关于代际变革的全国性辩论，在78岁的众议员阿尔·格林与38岁的克里斯琴·梅尼菲之间的初选中起到了重要作用，但在这个以休斯顿为中心的选区，情况更为复杂。
梅尼菲将自己塑造成下一代领导人，而格林则辩称自己更符合民主党目前对特朗普采取更强硬态度的诉求。格林自特朗普第一任期以来就多次推动弹劾特朗普。去年他在国会联席会议上打断特朗普演讲时被驱逐出众议院会议厅并遭到谴责。
“我才是真正的斗士，”格林在一场决选辩论中说道，同时举着将梅尼菲描绘成拳击手的竞选宣传册，“这是个假斗士。”
梅尼菲对选战的恶劣程度表示遗憾，他在辩论中称，得州共和党人划分选区让两名黑人选民代表相互竞争，“这正是他们想要看到的”。他为自己对抗特朗普的策略辩护，称自己更倾向于“战略性战斗——不是为了被看见、被听见，而是为了取得成效”。
这场决选对加密货币行业来说是一次重大考验，该行业认为众议院金融服务委员会成员格林对其议程不友好。一个与该行业结盟的超级政治行动委员会在初选期间就开始投入资金，决选阶段仍在继续，已斥资500万美元帮助梅尼菲、打击格林。
另一场党内对决在得州第33国会选区上演，该选区是达拉斯地区一个坚定的民主党票仓。众议员朱莉·约翰逊与前众议员科林·奥尔雷德对决，此次对决源于选区重划拆分了约翰逊所在的第32选区，以及奥尔雷德去年放弃参选联邦参议员的决定。
奥尔雷德在3月初选中以11.5个百分点的优势领先约翰逊，对现任议员来说是一个重大预警信号。他抓住约翰逊在国会进行股票交易的问题大做文章，将自己宣传为更值得信赖的股票交易禁令倡导者。
决选阶段，奥尔雷德获得了众议员贾斯敏·克罗克特的支持，克罗克特放弃了第33选区的席位，参与参议员初选最终失利。奥尔雷德在克罗克特宣布参选数小时前退出了参议员竞选。
选战中最大的争议点之一是两位候选人对特朗普执政时期移民政策的立场。奥尔雷德支持废除美国移民与海关执法局（ICE），而约翰逊则指责他在拜登政府时期及2024年参议员竞选期间，就移民执法问题采取了更温和的立场后，正在重塑自身形象。
“科林·奥尔雷德帮助共和党为ICE打开了大门，而朱莉·约翰逊正在与之对抗，”约翰逊一则决选广告中的旁白说道，屏幕上还出现文字，质问奥尔雷德是否是“MAGA最喜欢的民主党人”。
就在一个月前，得州第35国会选区的决选还相对平淡。但在一个神秘的超级政治行动委员会开始为性治疗师莫琳·加林多造势后，这场竞选成为全美关注度最高的选举之一。加林多曾发表反犹言论，她的对手是贝萨尔县警长办公室公共信息官约翰尼·加西亚。
包括众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯在内的民主党人纷纷谴责加林多的言论，以及超级政治行动委员会“左翼领先PAC”的明显干预。该组织在决选阶段已投入近100万美元，包括投放广告，宣传加林多是民主党人的新鲜面孔，将废除移民与海关执法局。
“为了赢得选举而支持并吹捧一名持有反犹且极其危险言论和观点的边缘候选人，已经超出了底线，”众议院民主党领导人在近期一份声明中说道。
民主党人尤其希望选出合适的候选人，因为该选区的中期选举预计将竞争激烈。该选区从圣安东尼奥延伸至奥斯汀，是得州共和党为自身划定的五个新席位之一，2024年特朗普在该选区的得票率将高出对手10个百分点。但民主党人认为，鉴于特朗普的支持率下滑以及他在拉美裔选民中的支持率暴跌，该选区仍有争取空间。
共和党人周二也将在该选区举行决选，他们将在获得特朗普背书的卡洛斯·德拉克鲁兹与温和派共和党州众议员乔恩·卢汉之间做出选择。前者是空军退伍军人，也是众议员莫妮卡·德拉克鲁兹的兄弟；后者曾在摇摆选区参选。
特朗普背书帕克斯顿给科宁带来了毁灭性打击。如今许多政治观察人士预计帕克斯顿将获胜——而且可能以较大优势胜出。
这对科宁来说将是毁灭性的结果，他在得州政坛打拼数十年，曾作为参议院多数党党鞭参与特朗普第一任期的核心议程。特朗普不仅上周背书了帕克斯顿，周日还在社交媒体发文批评科宁“非常不忠诚”，对《拯救美国法案》——特朗普的一项立法优先事项——支持不够。
周五在科珀斯克里斯蒂进行决选阶段最后一次拉票活动时，科宁对记者表示，他预计会像3月3日初选中领先帕克斯顿那样，让质疑他的人闭嘴。尽管他继续标榜自己是特朗普的盟友，但他对支持者表示：“得州人有权选择我们的参议员，其他人无权干涉。”
帕克斯顿阵营已开始为中期选举做准备。在得州共和党主席亚伯拉罕·乔治要求双方团队为11月的选举团结起来后，帕克斯顿的竞选团队和一个支持帕克斯顿的超级政治行动委员会上周停止了针对科宁的负面广告投放。（科宁拒绝了这一要求。）
尽管如此，一些帕克斯顿的盟友仍在努力让他的支持者在决选期间保持热情。
“我们知道总统的背书会让他占据巨大优势，但我们不能想当然，”得州联邦众议员共和党候选人特雷弗·内尔斯周三在休斯顿郊区的一场帕克斯顿集会上对人群说道。
John Cornyn makes his last stand against Ken Paxton, and other things to watch in Tuesday’s Texas runoffs
2026-05-26T09:00:07.722Z / CNN
Republican Sen. John Cornyn’s uphill battle for renomination from his party reaches its conclusion Tuesday as voters head to the polls in the Texas primary runoffs.
President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week shifted the race dramatically against Cornyn.
Several other contentious runoffs highlight deep divisions within both parties, including a Republican battle over the attorney general’s office and Democratic primaries for three House seats.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn’s uphill battle for renomination from his party reaches its conclusion Tuesday as voters head to the polls in the Texas primary runoffs.
Cornyn’s race against state Attorney General Ken Paxton was considered highly competitive until a week ago, when President Donald Trump abruptly backed Paxton and made him the front-runner for the nomination.
Now, Paxton is shifting gears to the general election, where state Rep. James Talarico awaits as the Democratic nominee. Cornyn has refused to drop out and is still fighting through Tuesday, arguing a Paxton nomination puts Republicans at risk of losing his seat in November.
There are several other notable races on Tuesday’s ballot that show off deep divides inside the two major parties. At stake are the political futures of three Democratic members of the House as well as the direction of one of the most consequential statewide offices.
Here’s what to watch:
With Paxton running for Senate, the attorney general’s seat is open for the first time since 2014. The office is highly influential in the national conservative movement and a stepping stone to higher office in Texas.
There has been a fierce runoff between US Rep. Chip Roy and state Sen. Mayes Middleton. While Trump has not endorsed between the two, they have fought extensively over their pro-Trump credentials.
Middleton, an oil-and-gas heir who is self-funding his campaign, has branded himself “MAGA Mayes” and seized on Roy’s profile as a conservative agitator who has occasionally upset Trump. Middleton has noted that Roy accused Trump of “clearly impeachable conduct” after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, though Roy voted against impeaching Trump.
Roy, who held multiple high-profile legal jobs before joining Congress, has countered that Middleton lacks the experience to serve as the state’s top lawyer. Roy has run ads emphasizing Trump’s visit to Texas last year after catastrophic flooding in which the president said Roy is “not easy, but he’s good.”
“Yeah, I drive a hard bargain,” Roy says in one runoff ad, “because I do what’s right for Texas.”
Some of the president’s allies have sharply escalated their attacks on Roy in recent days. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Trump’s three-time state campaign chairman, has lambasted Roy’s claims of being pro-Trump, while Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz traveled to Texas on Friday to campaign with Middleton.
The national debate over generational change inside the Democratic Party factors heavily into the primary runoff between Reps. Al Green, 78, and Christian Menefee, 38. But it has been a bit more nuanced in this Houston-based district.
While Menefee as pitched himself as a next-generation leader, Green has argued he is more aligned with Democrats’ current desire for a more aggressive approach to Trump. Green has repeatedly sought to impeach Trump, dating back to the president’s first term. He was removed from the House chamber last year and censured after heckling Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress.
“I’m the real fighter,” Green said during one runoff debate, holding up campaign literature that depicted Menefee as a boxer. “This is a fake fighter.”
Menefee has lamented the nastiness of the race, saying at the debate that it is “exactly what (Texas Republicans) wanted” when they drew a district that pitted the two Black lawmakers against one another. He has defended his strategy for taking on Trump, suggesting that he prefers to “fight strategically – not to be seen, not to be heard – but to be effective.”
The runoff is a major test for the cryptocurrency industry, which views Green, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, as unfriendly to its agenda. A super PAC aligned with the industry began spending in the primary and has continued in the runoff, dropping $5 million to help Menefee and hurt Green.
Another intraparty battle is playing out in the 33rd Congressional District, a solidly blue district in the Dallas area. Rep. Julie Johnson is up against former Rep. Colin Allred in a matchup triggered by the redrawing of Johnson’s current 32nd District and Allred’s decision to abandon his US Senate campaign last year.
Allred finished 11.5 percentage points ahead of Johnson in the March primary, a major warning sign for the incumbent. He had seized on her stock trading in Congress and promoted himself as a more trustworthy advocate for banning the practice.
In the runoff, Allred has won the support of Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who gave up her seat in the 33rd District to wage an unsuccessful Senate primary campaign. Allred dropped his Senate bid hours before Crockett entered the race.
One of the biggest sources of tension has been where the candidates stand on immigration under Trump. While Allred has backed abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Johnson has argued he is rebranding himself after taking a more moderate stance on immigration enforcement under President Joe Biden and in his 2024 Senate campaign.
“While Colin Allred helped Republicans open the door for ICE, Julie Johnson is taking them on,” a narrator says in one of Johnson’s runoff ads, which features text on the screen asking if Allred is “MAGA’s favorite Democrat.”
As recently as a month ago, the runoff for Texas’ 35th Congressional District was relatively sleepy. But after a mysterious super PAC began boosting Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist who has made antisemitic comments, the race became one of the most closely watched in the nation. Galindo faces Johnny Garcia, a public information officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
Democrats from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on down have condemned Galindo’s rhetoric and the apparent meddling by the super PAC, Lead Left PAC. The group has spent nearly $1 million in the runoff, including on ads that promote Galindo as a fresh face for Democrats who will abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“To embrace and uplift a fringe candidate with antisemitic — and extremely dangerous — rhetoric and views in order to win an election is beyond the pale,” House Democratic leaders said in a recent statement.
Democrats are especially interested in nominating the right person because the general election in the district, which runs from San Antonio to Austin, is expected to be competitive. It is one of the five new seats that Texas Republicans drew for themselves, and Trump would have carried it by 10 percentage points in 2024. But Democrats believe it is within reach given Trump’s decline in popularity and his plummeting standing with Latinos.
Republicans also have a runoff in the district Tuesday. They are choosing between Trump-endorsed Carlos De La Cruz, an Air Force veteran and brother of Rep. Monica De La Cruz, and state Rep. Jon Lujan, a moderate Republican with a record of running in battleground districts.
Trump dealt a crushing blow to Cornyn by endorsing Paxton. Now many political observers expect Paxton to win – and potentially by a lot.
It would be a devastating outcome for Cornyn, who has spent decades in Texas politics and was a key player in Trump’s first-term agenda as Senate majority whip. Trump not only endorsed Paxton last week but also followed up Sunday with a social media post criticizing Cornyn as “very disloyal” and not supportive enough of the Save America Act, a Trump legislative priority.
Speaking with reporters at his final get-out-the-vote stop of the runoff, on Friday in Corpus Christi, Cornyn predicted he would disapprove his doubters much like he did when he finished ahead of Paxton in the March 3 primary. And while he continued to tout himself as a Trump ally, he told supporters, “Texans get to choose our senator and no one else.”
Paxton’s side is already moving on to the general election. His campaign and a pro-Paxton super PAC stopped running negative ads about Cornyn last week after Texas GOP Chairman Abraham George asked both teams to start uniting for the November election. (Cornyn refused.)
Still, some Paxton allies are trying to keep his supporters energized through the runoff.
“We know the endorsement of our president is going to give him a big leg up, but we can’t take it for granted,” Trever Nehls, a Republican candidate for House in Texas, told the crowd at a Paxton rally Wednesday in suburban Houston.
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