Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Tuesday’s Senate Republican primary in Texas ended in an anticlimax, with no candidate winning a majority of the vote. Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn will face state Attorney General Ken Paxton in a May 26 runoff. Though Cornyn will likely receive more votes than the other two Republican candidates — as of this writing, Cornyn has 43 percent of the vote, compared to Paxton’s 40 percent — Cornyn faces a tough road if he hopes to save his political career. Veteran senators (Cornyn was first elected in 2002) typically don’t fa...

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