The win means Trump — and Democrats — get their preferred candidate for a general election matchup with James Talarico.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn is facing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in today's GOP Senate runoff after neither candidate secured enough votes in the March primary to win the nomination. President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton last week.

Ken Paxton weathered a long list of scandals in the years leading up to his decisive victory Tuesday in the Republican primary runoff for Senate in Texas.

In a video posted to social media, Talarico described Paxton's corruption as the "rot at the core of this broken system."

NBC News projects that Paxton, who received a late endorsement from Trump, will advance to the general election to face Democrat James Talarico.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton decisively won Tuesday’s primary runoff election in the Lone Star State, knocking off incumbent Sen. John Cornyn exactly one week after securing President Trump’s pivotal endorsement .

Texas AG Ken Paxton, endorsed by Trump as a "MAGA Warrior," defeats Sen. John Cornyn in the heated Republican Senate primary runoff election.

Texans are voting in a U.S. Senate primary runoff where incumbent four-term Sen. John Cornyn is facing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in an expensive, drawn-out race that has caught