BREAKING: Brandon Gill endorses Ken Paxton in Texas Senate race

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) has endorsed current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the US Senate. In a piece for Breitbart, Gill wrote, "To enact President Trump’s agenda, the Senate needs serious change; and a great place to start is by electing Ken Paxton."

He said that Paxton is a "battle-hardened conservative," noting the failed impeachment attempt against the Texas official in 2023 and his fight "on the front lines fighting in support of President Trump, against the Islamization of Texas, against the Left’s open borders, and against woke Democrat insanity."

Gill said that Texas voters are "starving for change." Paxton will face off against incumbent Senator John Cornyn on May 26 in a runoff election, after neither candidate reached 50 percent of the vote in the primary. "They want a Senator who will relentlessly and assiduously fight the Left and who will use every tool necessary to win. Ken Paxton will."

The Senate has been struggling for weeks to get the SAVE America Act passed, which Gill said would be possible in the Senate if it utilized the talking filibuster. "That isn’t something Senator Cornyn was willing to do – at least not until Ken Paxton forced his hand. Only then did Cornyn come out in support of the talking filibuster."

"Texans understand it was Paxton who led the charge on the SAVE America Act, not Cornyn. This is an issue that could determine the future viability of our Republic. When the stakes are this high, Texas needs a Senator who is eager to join the fight, not one reluctantly dragged to the Right in order to placate Texans during a heated primary election."

Gill also noted Cornyn’s history of supporting amnesty for illegal aliens, with the Texas lawmaker introducing an immigration bill in 2003 that would have provided amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants: "While also creating individual investment accounts funded by payroll taxes for those newly-amnestied aliens." Cornyn has also criticized those who want to build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants going back to 2004, and sponsored a bill that would have provided amnesty in 2018, Gill wrote.

"I cannot support a Republican Senate candidate from my home state who won’t reject amnesty boldly and unambiguously – especially after four years of chaotic, lawless and utterly destructive open borders. Cornyn misses the moment. America needs deportations, not amnesty, and my constituents agree."

Gill said another reason he was throwing his support behind Paxton over Cornyn was because of the latter’s support of mass migration, "which directly fueled the disturbing Islamization of Texas," with Cornyn urging Biden in 2021 to expedite the US bringing in Afghan refugees.

"Electing Ken Paxton is the single greatest opportunity in 2026 to send a message that Texans will not tolerate anything less. That’s why in the upcoming runoff elections, I’ll be voting for Paxton, and I hope you will too."