The Texas runoff didn’t simply settle a brutal Republican intraparty struggle, it additionally sharpened the total 2026 Senate image for prediction markets. Once Ken Paxton crushed incumbent Sen. John Cornyn this week and locked in the GOP Senate nomination in Texas, the basic Senate race instantly turned greater than a Texas story. It is now one in every of…
Ken Paxton’s blowout over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Senate runoff was precisely the sort of outcome prediction markets had been telegraphing for weeks. Once President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton final week, the race was all however determined as prediction markets pushed Paxton above 90% as a result of it understood the runoff had change…
President Donald Trump let a key deadline move with out endorsing both incumbent Sen. John Cornyn or Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton within the lead-up to the Texas GOP Senate major runoff May 26. March 17 was the deadline for candidates to withdraw from the race. Cornyn and Paxton superior from the preliminary March 3…