You can trash Cornyn, but he wasnt a crook up there enriching himself. Paxton will absolutely do that..

BTW, weep not for Cornyn. By the end of the week - if not already - he will be lined up with some lobbying firm and extend his streak of making bank off special interest politics.

Sounds like talarico is just the man for you

Care to validate that statement with his net worth before / after being a US Senator?

Between this:
https://www.krgv.com/news/how-john-cornyn-s-historic-gun-safety-bill-has-become-a-reelection-liability/

And this:


John Cornyn, the slimy lawyer, can sit at home and exchange missives with Jeb and Mitt.

Looks like you got a new home

I want to thank Senator John Cornyn for his years representing our state. 

We don’t agree on everything, but we both still believe in public service.

To Senator Cornyn’s supporters: you have a place in our campaign.

— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) May 27, 2026

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You can trash Cornyn, but he wasnt a crook up there enriching himself. Paxton will absolutely do that..

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100% supposition on your part.

But he would have 100% voted for the SAVE Act. And I can tell you what he won't do. Give hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of RINOs like Murkowski and Romney.

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So many Concerned Moderates coming out of the woodworks. If you all voted for Cornyn he'd still be around next year!

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I voted for him twice in three months! Did my best to keep out the freaks like French and Middleton too. I'm afraid these primaries are going to be a race to the bottom until somebody finally loses a general. That's really the only way to discipline the primary voters.

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What are you going to say when Paxton wins by 15 - 20 pts in November?

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I guess I will acknowledge that the Primary voters have not, in fact, been disciplined, and that I hope we are all represented well.

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Disciplined? WTF?

i honestly think all of these republicans getting ousted started to listen to the MSM that trumps polling is bad. if anything all of these results are showing how off this polling numbers are once again.

I don't. I sense the everyday red blooded conservative American is beyond tired of the inaction and grift on display by our elected officials.

Kozmozag said:

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You can trash Cornyn, but he wasnt a crook up there enriching himself. Paxton will absolutely do that..

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Lmfao

Yeah Cornyn was such a Boy Scout up there. Dumbest statement on this thread

TexAgs91 said:

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After this reception at the GOP convention 3 years ago, his days were numbered

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Yep his anti-2a votes killed his political career. throw in his support for illegals and he was just adding dirt to the pile that would bury it.

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The conservative angst against cornyn has been present for awhile. Local talk radio always spoke against him all the way back to probably 2010ish . Michael berry called him John "Wayne" Cornyn making fun of his ads I think in the 2008 or 2014 campaign. Memory is a bit fuzzy. This idea that it's only just cuz of MAGA or trump or conservatives are bending their ideals isn't accurate.

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This. Have been disgusted with him for last 2 elections, but with no one else to vote for. His sponsoring the gun control/red flag legislation was the last straw for me. And him showing up in his black cowboy hat and jeans during election time just made me more p*sssed.

I want to comment on John Cornyn losing his primary because I go to DC parties where I meet establishment guys and I know how they think.

Senate Republicans think they are the reason Republicans won in 2024. They think they’re the GOP’s secret sauce.

You think the GOP rode…

— Shakes, A Large And Aesthetic Man (@TheFatAmerican) May 27, 2026

I want to comment on John Cornyn losing his primary because I go to DC parties where I meet establishment guys and I know how they think.

Senate Republicans think they are the reason Republicans won in 2024. They think they're the GOP's secret sauce.

You think the GOP rode Trump's coattails. They think Trump road their coattails.

In this world, Republicans won because Democrats went too far. Woke was too crazy. Republicans were moderate and sensible. Now, they have to keep the party that way or Republicans will make the same mistake the Democrats made.

They think in very outdated terms. Republicans will lose in 2026 because the incumbent party always loses. This is a political "rule". They are 100% certain Republicans will lose. Therefore, anything Trump does to try to win the midterms is actually cope. You're talking crazy. Crazy is bad.

SAVE? Deportations? That's crazy. Crazy is bad.

"But if you redistrict and pass voter ID Republicans will win!"

Senate Republicans are not thinking like that. They're thinking you're nuts.

Passing bills, making law? They think that whatever mandate they had was squandered by Trump over controversies like Minneapolis and posting too many memes on Twitter. The GOP looks too crazy now. Well try again next time.

They're actually doing us a favor. By doing nothing they're protecting us from our own excesses. They're helping us not look crazy. We had better thank them.

When you think of MAGA, you think of Donald Trump and reindustrialization and deporting illegal immigrants.

When they think of MAGA, they think of Marjorie Taylor Greene. They think of Roy Moore losing Alabama in 2018. They think of "grab them by the *****". They think of "they're eating the dogs". They think of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz and Alex Jones. They think of crazy people doing stupid things.

So, in every election since 2016, and maybe even before that, it's Establishment Republicans who have saved the ticket from the worst excesses of Donald Trump and the Republican base.

That is what Senate Republicans mean when they say they want to "govern". They want to pass budgets and workshop foreign policy.

That is why they still won't implement Trump's agenda. They think it is deeply unpopular, or will become unpopular even if it temporarily polls well. They think Trump only won because they saved his bacon.

So, John Cornyn.

John Cornyn lost because the base is deeply unhappy with Senate Republican leadership. Republican voters would probably replace a majority of Senate Republicans if you simply took a straw poll.

Senate Republicans know this, but think that Republicans voters almost always "come to their senses" because we all know Republicans can't afford to be crazy. Democrats lose when they're crazy. Republicans will lose the same way.

Sometimes the base has to be coerced or told what to do. That's why they have to spend $100M propping up Cornyn.

Cornyn's loss is shocking to them because it doesn't make sense:

* Trump has "no reason" for endorsing Paxton over Cornyn. It's crazy for Trump to do this. Senate Republicans save Trump again and again and this is how he repays them.

* The voters are out of control. The base is "supposed to" vote for Republicans anyways, so they should know we have to support moderates who can win. The fact that the voters don't know this is more proof that Senate Republicans are the smartest people in the room.

Just another example of why we need term limits on all of our "representatives".

I have yet to see any one post something that cornyn did to help republicans

For what it’s worth, Cornyn did nothing to help @FDRLST when we faced horrific censorship from the federal government. Ken Paxton helped us fight our legal battle to get the State Dept to stop sponsoring censorship of our journalism. For those who care about principles…

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 27, 2026

njohn87 said:

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If Cornyn was a RINO, then I don't really know what a Republican is supposed to be. If he was too far left, then I think this is maybe where I get off the train.

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Don't want to be a RINO?

Don't backstab other republicans
Don't backstab the POTUS
Don't lobby against conservative bills
Push for the SAVE act instead of working to kill it
Push for a verbal veto the way it was before instead of working to kill it.

Want me to continue?