Ken Paxton narrowly leads John Cornyn in new poll of Texas' Senate GOP runoff

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The article provides poll figures, sample size, field dates and margin of error, and contextualizes the results with earlier polling and voter groups. It is primarily a poll report, with limited direct perspectives from the candidates and no underlying questionnaire or full methodology presented.

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