Austin, Texas (AP) – The Texas Prosecutor Kane Pakston nominates the US Senate in a fundamental challenge against Republican Senator John Corn, and puts what is likely to become one of the most controversial Republican Party competitions in 2026.
Buckston, a close ally of President Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday after spending more than a year joking publicly with the challenge of the Senate. During that time, Buckston sought to put himself as a national leader between ascending ascending ascending, as he launched some of the first criminal investigations in the United States about the prohibition of abortion and the confirmation of sex for sexual sexual youth.
His entry into the race, which he officially held in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, is no longer shaded due to the legal problems that have been attached to him nearly a decade but he did not weaken his ability to win twice.
Buckston said in a post on X.
The Cornein campaign appeared by describing his opponent as “fraud” and relied on the historical accountability of Pakston in 2023 after he was accused by eight of his closest aides of corruption and informed him of the FBI. Pakston was later acquitted to the Senate in Texas, where his wife was a member of the state, but he was not allowed to vote in his trial.
“This will be a vibrant campaign and we confirm that Texas will have a real option when this race ends,” Corn campaign said in a statement.
Paxston’s decision to enter the race highlights his political flexibility and his popularity between the Republicans of Texas after a decade of legal problems that sometimes seemed to show his future: concerns the spoils of securities, and accountability after an extraordinary revolution by his closest assistants and investigation office in FBI. Buckston reached a deal to end the criminal case and the Biden administration decided quietly not to prosecute him.
Corn, a respectable and famous Sinator at the Republican Party conference in Washington, will face his most competitive campaign since he took office in 2002.
He recently lost his attempt to lead the Republican Party as a majority leader in the Senate in November after spent several years as the Senator Mitch McConneel No. 2 in leadership. Corne, a former attorney in Texas, and the justice of the state’s Supreme Court, helped the party to collect millions of dollars throughout his decades -long career and worked with Democrats in party bills.
Corn received criticism from Buckston and other Republicans after suggested that Trump may not be the best Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential elections.
Pakston also expressed their dissatisfaction with Corn’s support for a two -year -old budget bill, which strengthened the background examination of buyers under the age of 21, and the prosecution of unlicensed sellers and money for mental health services for young people in the aftermath of Uvalde, Tixas, and photographing primary schools that killed 19 children and teachers.
In the midst of many legal battles, the Texas Public Prosecutor has become a person who is known for his right to charge him against former President Joe Biden. It is worth noting that Buckston led a lawsuit trying to overturn Trump’s loss to Biden in 2020, an effort rejected by the US Supreme Court.
In 2023, Texas’s house voted to isolate Buckston due to bribery crimes related to a rich real estate donor. He was later acquitted in the Senate after a two -week trial. The Ministry of Justice decided not to continue its investigation in Backston regarding allegations in recent weeks of former President Biden’s mandate, according to two people familiar with the matter that spoke to the Associated Press, provided that his identity is not disclosed.
In April, a local court judge granted $ 6.6 million to four former Buckston assistants in a lawsuit against his office after they were exposed shortly after reporting the Buckston office to the FBI for bribery allegations.
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Nadia Lathan is a member of the Associated Press Corps/report of America’s State News Initiative. America report is a non -profit national service program that puts journalists in local news rooms to report secret issues.