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Texas Senate seat fight heads to runoff after Republicans fail to secure required votes
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The Republican primary race for the Texas US Senate seat between incumbent four-term Senator John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been forced into a runoff after neither candidate secured the required 50% of the vote. The two candidates will face each other again in a runoff election scheduled for May 26. The contest reflects a bitter intra-party Republican rivalry in a key state.