Cornyn declines to say if he voted for Paxton, cites Paxton’s ‘corruption’ as issue

Outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) declined to say Monday whether he voted for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate in Texas’s Senate race who defeated Cornyn earlier this year in a primary runoff election, and cited Paxton’s “corruption” as a major reason why he lost to Democrat James Talarico. “The Republican Party treated…