Ken Paxton

• Comparing Views of John Cornyn and Ken Paxton in Texas with 2026 on the Horizon

  April 02, 2025 | By: Joshua Blank
  Texas Senator John Cornyn officially announced his re-election intentions this week in a race that is expected to include a vigorous primary contest in 2026.

• Second Reading Podcast: A Conversation with Incoming Texas Tribune Politics Editor Jasper Scherer.

  March 27, 2025 | By:
  James Henson talks with Jasper Scherer, reporter and incoming politics editor at The Texas Tribune about political maneuvering at the legislature as the pace of the session picks up, and about the evolution of the Tribune's position in the media ecosystem in Texas.

• Ken Paxton Approval (February 2025)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Ken Paxton has done as Attorney General? Would you say that you..."

• Ken Paxton Approval (December 2024)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Ken Paxton has done as Attorney General? Would you say that you..."

• Ken Paxton Approval (October 2024)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Ken Paxton has done as Attorney General? Would you say that you..."

• The effects of two decades of call-and-response between Texas Republican voters and their elected leaders on "election integrity"

  September 19, 2024 | By: Jim Henson, Joshua Blank

  A new round of interventions in the voting process by Texas state officials coincides with the reemergence of widespread doubts about elections and voting among Republican voters in the most recent statewide polling by the Texas Politics Project. The latest actions of state officials and new evidence of the persistence of doubts about the conduct of elections among Republican voters emerge from the rhetoric and policy of elected officials that have shaped public attitudes since the turn of the 21st century. These latest manifestations of declining trust in the electoral process, inflamed by Donald Trump's insistent propagation of the fiction that elections are being corrupted by the votes of undocumented immigrants, suggest that Texans are approaching the Rubicon in terms of their ability to maintain shared trust in the state's deployment of democracy.

• Ken Paxton Approval (August 2024)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Ken Paxton has done as Attorney General? Would you say that you..."

• Ken Paxton Approval (June 2024)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Ken Paxton has done as Attorney General? Would you say that you..."

• Ken Paxton Approval (April 2024)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Ken Paxton has done as Attorney General? Would you say that you..."

• How much have you heard about the legal problems of Attorney General Ken Paxton? (April 2024)

  Respondents were asked, "How much have you heard in the news about each of the following: The legal problems of Attorney General Ken Paxton?"