President Trump continued his winning streak in the 2026 primaries with Ken Paxton’s victory over John Cornyn on Tuesday, countering claims from Elon Musk’s UK party that Trump-style populism is over.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump achieved his 118th consecutive primary victory with his endorsed candidates on Tuesday, with four wins in Texas, including a major victory in which state Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate primary runoff. This counters claims from Restore Britain, an Elon Musk-backed fringe party seeking to undermine Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party in the United Kingdom, that Trump-style populism is a spent force.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “Restore Britain is the enemy of populism. Yes. 2010s populism, as embodied in the figure of Trump and his friends like Farage, has been utterly defeated as a radical force,” claimed Charlie Downes, chief spokesman for Elon Musk’s Restore Britain party, on May 25.
🎯 IMPACT: Trump’s continued success in the primaries, unseating longtime establishment incumbent John Cornyn in favor of America First stalwart Ken Paxton, underscores the enduring, transformative power of the MAGA movement, challenging narratives that its brand of populism, which includes Reform UK, is waning.
💬 SECONDARY QUOTE: “There’s a huge question mark over whether or not Elon Musk and all of these guys are actually working hand in hand with the British political establishment to stop a real change coming in the United Kingdom… [Elon Musk] wants more electric vehicle mandates, more H1B-style migration.” – Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, on May 26
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Ken Paxton just sent an earthquake through Texas all the way to Washington DC and beyond.
The people claiming the MAGA movement is defeated are unserious. pic.twitter.com/0nvtFfFp0j
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) May 27, 2026
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