Angela Paxton has better cause to sit this out than anyone in Texas. In July 2025 she filed to end a 38-year marriage, citing adultery and saying she was seeking the divorce on biblical grounds. She and Ken Paxton have lived apart since the summer of 2024. Whatever the public knows about that, she knows more, and none of it was pleasant.
On Saturday she cut a thirty-second ad telling Texans she’s voting the Republican ticket on November 3. “I’m Texas Senator Angela Paxton. People have asked my thoughts about this election, and turns out I have some,” she says in the ad. “Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. In a general election, it’s not as much about the individual players on the team; it’s about getting the whole team across the finish line.”
“Either we hold every Republican seat, or we hand the future of Texas to the other team,” Paxton said. “That’s why I’m voting for the Republican ticket on November 3rd. Let’s hold the line together.”
?Angela Paxton, the estranged wife of Ken Paxton, says she’s voting Republican down the ballot
“Either we hold every Republican seat or we hand the future of Texas to the other team,” she said. “Let’s hold the line, together.” https://t.co/96FbSJdA70
— Jacob Wheeler (@JWheelertv) October 3, 2026
She never says her husband’s name. She doesn’t have to. She makes the only argument that matters in a general election: it isn’t about the individual players, it’s about getting Republicans elected to Congress. Real Republicans. That’s a woman who has every personal reason to look away, and who looked at a toss-up Senate race that may decide control of the chamber and decided the stakes outrank her grievance.
Now set that beside outgoing RINO Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who Ken Paxton beat in the primary with President Donald Trump’s help. Cornyn’s complaint is that he lost a primary. That’s it. For that injury he has spent the general election telling Texas newspapers that his party’s nominee lacks good moral character, is a poor campaigner, and doesn’t work hard enough. He flew former President George W. Bush, a RINO’s RINO, into Dallas last month to headline a fundraiser for six Republican Senate candidates in Maine, Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Michigan, and New Hampshire — in a Texas ballroom. You know who wasn’t invited? The Texas Senate nominee. He has since joined a lame RINO effort push to have the Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena President Trump’s sons.
Just pathetic. But there is some good news. Notice who’s actually paying for Angela Paxton’s ad: Texas PAC, a newly formed super PAC tied to the Senate Leadership Fund — John Thune’s orbit — which has put a record $131 million into this race. The institutional Republican Party has looked at the math and gotten on board. The donor network that spent $130 million trying to stop Paxton in the primary is now spending to save the seat, because the people running it can count to fifty-one.
That leaves Cornyn in the company of the irrelevant Bushes, nursing a grudge with four months left in a career that spans two decades. Meanwhile the ground game is where it should be. Trump was in suburban Dallas this week on the economy and goes to San Antonio next. VP Vance was in Brownsville breaking ground on a project expected to produce thousands of jobs, making the case against Democratic nominee and socialist weirdo James Talarico on both economics and values.
Angela Paxton’s ad will probably move more suburban women than anything the campaign itself produces, because it comes from someone with no reason to say it.
