Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state's GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, listens as President Donald Trump addresses the Republican midterm convention crowd in Dallas on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. Credit: Texas Tribune / Eddie Gaspar DALLAS - Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, is coming off the sidelines in Texas' U.S. Senate race, placing its first ad buy of the general election in support of Ken Paxton.

Texas PAC, a new group connected to SLF, on Friday purchased an initial tranche of some $32 million worth of broadcast TV ads in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin media markets, according to the media tracking firm AdImpact.

Sign up Senate Republicans had previously resisted spending money in Texas.