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Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia’s GOP Senate runoff against Derek Dooley, praising Collins’ MAGA alignment and criticizing Dooley’s refusal to promote 2020 election conspiracy theories. Collins remains the frontrunner despite a string of controversy over social posts and staffers tied to far-right groups, with the winner facing Democrat Jon Ossoff in the general election.
President Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the May 26 Republican Senate runoff against Sen. John Cornyn, framing Paxton as a 'MAGA Warrior' who will win and urging party loyalty. The move comes as Paxton has trailed Cornyn in the March primary and after a costly race, with some Senate Republicans preferring Cornyn for the general election and early voting already underway.
President Trump said he will endorse a candidate in Texas's GOP Senate runoff soon and asked the other candidate to drop out, a move that could tilt a tight Cornyn–Paxton race as ballots continue counting. Democrats are coalescing around James Talarico, and party strategists expect the endorsement to shape a lengthy, expensive runoff.
Operatives on the payroll of former President Donald Trump discussed using stolen data from voting machines to decertify Georgia’s 2020 Senate runoff, according to text messages obtained by CNN. The operatives gained access to a voting machine in Coffee County, Georgia, after a sympathetic local election administrator allowed them to download voting data onto a portable hard drive. The breaches are being examined by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as part of a larger investigation into Trump’s attempts to interfere in the 2020 election.
Text messages obtained by CNN reveal that Trump allies considered using breached voting data from a rural county in Georgia not only to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also in an effort to keep a Republican hold on the US Senate by decertifying the state's pending Senate runoff results. The plot to breach voting systems in Coffee County, coordinated by members of Trump’s legal team including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, is part of a broader criminal investigation into 2020 election interference led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis’ office is weighing a potential racketeering case against multiple defendants and is actively deciding who to bring charges against.