After months of hinting at a run for U.S. Senate, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's path has become clearer since the dismissal of a federal investigation.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton leveraged news Thursday that the Justice Department declined to prosecute him to attack his likely primary opponent, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. Justice Department officials effectively ended their corruption investigation into Paxton in the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency,

The Texas attorney general told The New York Times that the state's senior U.S. senator has lost a big part of his party's base.