After spending much of the spring and summer trailing state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the polls, Senator John Cornyn has pulled even with his chief rival for the 2026 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate from Texas. Houston-area Congressman Wesley Hunt , who formally entered the contest earlier this week, is in third place.

The latest survey of likely GOP primary voters by the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs and Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs shows Paxton polling 34% in a three-way race, with Cornyn polling 33%, Hunt 22%, and 11% of respondents unsure.

Mark Jones, a Rice University political scientist and co-author of the survey, said the finding reflects net gains by Cornyn among potential GOP primary v

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