Republicans in Texas: Endangering the
Senate Majority?
American Thinker,
by
Alex Adkins
Original Article
Posted By: chagrined,
8/20/2025 11:08:51 AM
The state of Texas is generating considerable buzz ahead of the 2026 midterm elections regarding its efforts to redraw the state’s congressional districts. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate race is starting to turn heads on the Republican side, as incumbent Republican senator John Cornyn faces a tightly contested primary challenge from Attorney General Ken Paxton, which could turn a non-competitive race into a Democrat pickup.
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Ken Paxton is one of the best state attorneys general in the United States and John Cornyn is one of the sketchiest Republican senators. The author knows better than to try to advocate Cornyn's reelection on the merits. Instead he pursues lines of attack on Paxton which are tiresomely familiar from their use against Donald Trump: Allusions to years of feckless Democrat lawfare, moral preening, and a cherry picked poll. Are we to expect something similar from American Thinker when a credible challenger to Lindsey Graham emerges?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/20/2025 11:54:34 AM (No. 1993070)
Cornyn is a total RINO. I wouldn't doubt if he is really good friends with all the Leftist Morons in the Senate.
I DO NOT TRUST HIM, we need NEW BLOOF, MAGA BLOOD! Anyone that wants to keep Cornyn is NOT MAGA, PERIOD! I see advertisements on YouTube telling us how good Cornyn is and how he supports Trump...most of what is said is a flat out LIE!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 8/20/2025 11:54:43 AM (No. 1993071)
There are still pretty solid rumors that Rep Wesley Hunt, a black Republican from the Houston area may still toss his hat into this race. He's buying lots of ads statewide not mentioning a race, but building name recognition.
Paxton is a decent choice; but he does have some baggage, including an impending divorce from his State Senator wife, with the scuttlebutt being that he cheated on her.
Whoever wins the primary will win the general election for the Republicans. As I've said for years, a Democrat will win a statewide race in Texas at some point in time. It just isn't going to be in 2026. 2028 doesn't look good either.
And anyway, I really kind of like my favorite candidates to be a touch worried at election time. Give them too big of a win and it goes to their heads. Like old Joe Kennedy said about JFK's election -- I'm paying for a win, not a landslide.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 8/20/2025 11:56:09 AM (No. 1993072)
Paxton is a solid MAGA Republican. Cornyn is a squish who can’t be counted on, and can’t be trusted. We’ve needed to get rid of him for at least ten years.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/20/2025 12:41:53 PM (No. 1993095)
Remember, in the House and Senate, seniority is preeminent.
If you vote out Cornyn, you will lose the seniority he brings to the table.
That being said, Paxton may be great at one thing, in Texas, but will that translate into the Senate?
He does have some shaky baggage that will likely turn off the Christian base he's likely going to need.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kdog 8/20/2025 1:13:22 PM (No. 1993102)
I remember Republicans telling me not to vote for a certain dude in the primaries for President as he wasn't "electable". He's won the presidential election three times now. Hoping for a 4th, btw...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/20/2025 1:16:57 PM (No. 1993104)
The chattering lass always has opinions. Only Texas voters will make their choice.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
danu 8/20/2025 1:25:08 PM (No. 1993108)
when has this parasite jc, voted for anybody but himself ? he's a solid no vote for WTP.
get rid of abbott and the loser leadership, shovel out the corrupt rino/ damnocrats within the
tx legislature, and the eyes of texas will shine again.
as for paxton, we don't find anything compelling about the opportunistic complaints of the mrs.
abbott's contractor pals are building housing in so. tx. -- for illegals-- on the backs of overtaxed citizens
who are losing their own homes to this cabal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/20/2025 1:56:19 PM (No. 1993121)
The Cornyn Rino always pulls a rabbit out of the bag to keep himself in office, indicting his opponent, now saying anyone else can't win. Really? I am voting for Paxton. I have had enough of Cornyn and his situational finger in the wind conservatism. You know Cornyn is in trouble when you ever hear from or about him. Otherwise, you hear nothing of Cornyn, because nothing is what he does.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
robertthomason 8/20/2025 2:55:28 PM (No. 1993136)
Wonder how much lowT Cornyn paid Alex to write this weapons grade BS article?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/20/2025 3:01:15 PM (No. 1993141)
I solidly believe the long timer RINO congress critters own their seats, and they steal them each and every time. It has to be why SC can't rid ourselves of Lindsey. I don't know anyone in the state who supports him, and I'm not in a bubble. He was so unpopular his last election he was scared he'd get beat by a black democrat.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 8/20/2025 4:18:37 PM (No. 1993160)
The sneaky little strategies and second guessing "the voters" gets so old. If the guy is a bum, vote for someone else. Voting for a bum just because of the letter after his name or what committees he might be on is how we got in all this trouble in the first place. It has not served us well and I'm not doing it anymore.
We did it with McCain and Romney both. No more jerks just because they have an R.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Muguy 8/20/2025 7:13:19 PM (No. 1993204)
Regardless of who wins the Repubican Primary for Senate, they will DEFEAT any demonrat/socialist/Marxist running against them.
Don't doubt it for a minute.
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And remember, Cornyn push and got passed an egregious gun control bill that was a darling piece of legislation for the auto-pen administration.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/21/2025 6:05:10 AM (No. 1993301)
Cornyn is a SWAMP RAT and might as well be a Damnable Democrat for all the good he's ever done for the country.
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Here we go again. Anytime a Conservative is expected to replace a Rino, someone trots this malarkey out. Never fails. As one of the commenters after the article stated, "Pure propaganda piece for the rino club". I couldn't agree more.