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Texas Republicans nominated State Attorney General Ken Paxton over four-term incumbent
John Cornyn in their Senate primary today after an endorsement from President Trump.
According to a race call by the Associated Press,
at more than $100 million, it was the most expensive primary in Senate history.
Democrats hoped the seat could be attainable because of divisions among Republicans in the race.
Paxton spoke during a rally after the results came in.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, I will be the Democrats' number one target in November.
Texas will be the radical left's number one priority. But if there's one thing I know about Texans,
it's that we're not going to let them take it." Paxton will face Democrat James Tallarico in the general election.
Paxton's time in office has been scandal-plagued.
He's fended off criminal indictments, whistleblower allegations, and an impeachment by the Texas House.
He was acquitted in the Texas Senate.
A federal court in Alabama has blocked the state's redistricting plan,
but Tennessee's new congressional maps have withstood their first legal challenge.
Mariana Baca-Yau of Member Station WPLN reports.
A three-judge panel in Tennessee rejected an emergency petition
filed by the NAACP to stop the new congressional map from going into effect.
The change splits the state's majority black city of Memphis into three different districts.
50-year-old law prohibiting mid-decade redistricting.