{
  "id": 15387300,
  "title": "Can Ken Paxton outrun a trail of scandal to win US Senate seat in ruby-red Texas?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/can-ken-paxton-outrun-a-trail-of-scandal-to-win-us-senate-seat-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-18T09:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/ken-paxton-texas-senate-scandal-midterms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Republican state attorney general appears uniquely ill-chosen as a candidate – but he is a political survivor who could yet frustrate Democratic dreams Depending how you look at the situation, it is either predictable that Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general and Republican candidate for US Senate, is struggling in the polls – or impressive that he is not doing worse. Beloved by hardcore Maga…",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "BusinessDay Nigeria",
        "title": "Fireworks in Abia North as fearless ‘young’ Kalu wants Orji Uzor Kalu’s seat in the Senate",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/fireworks-in-abia-north-as-fearless-young-kalu-wants-orji-uzor-kalus",
        "published": "2026-10-18T06:12:47.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}