{"id":3607,"date":"2026-05-27T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/05\/27\/paxton-hails-trumps-endorsement-as-most-powerful-force-in-politics-after-texas-runoff-win-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:39:42","slug":"paxton-hails-trumps-endorsement-as-most-powerful-force-in-politics-after-texas-runoff-win-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"Paxton hails Trump\u2019s endorsement as \u2018most powerful force in politics\u2019 after Texas runoff win \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Menefee, a freshman Democratic US representative, beat veteran congressman Al Green on Tuesday in a fierce runoff that was the product of Republican gerrymandering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, the Republican-dominated Texas legislature unveiled a congressional map designed to flip seats in the GOP\u2019s favor. Donald Trump<\/a> had urged the state\u2019s lawmakers to safeguard the party\u2019s congressional majority.<\/p>\n

Under the new map, Green, a congressional fixture for over two decades and a staunch Trump critic, saw his reliably Democratic ninth district effectively eliminated<\/a>. He announced a bid for the 18th district in November.<\/p>\n

Menefee was sworn into the seat in January, after winning a special election to replace the late US representative Sylvester Turner.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, Green sought to link Menefee with big-money politics, accusing his challenger of being aligned with \u201cTrump crypto cronies\u201d, Houston Public Media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Green\u2019s protests of the Trump administration<\/a> have garnered national attention in recent years.<\/p>\n

In February, he was ejected from the president\u2019s State of the Union address after holding a sign that read \u201cBlack people aren\u2019t apes!\u201d It was a counter to Trump sharing a racist AI-generated video<\/a> where Barack and Michelle Obama were depicted as the simians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian Menefee, a freshman Democratic US representative, beat veteran congressman Al Green on Tuesday in a fierce runoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}