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American politician and lawyer (born 1962)
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the 51st attorney general of Texas since 2015. He is the Republican Party nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Texas.
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Texas is a state in the United States. Located in the south-central part of the country, it borders Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. It also borders Mexico along the Rio Grande, and has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km2) and with an estimated population of over 31.7 million residents in 2025, it is the second-largest state by both area and population.
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Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton reportedly told donors that "everybody
Ken Paxton is the latest Republican to distance himself from Donald Trump's affordability claims ahead of the midterms.
In audio obtained by The New York Times, Texas AG Ken Paxton says the GOP's midterm conventions hurt his campaign.