@newrepublic

In 2015/16, Trump would regularly tell a similar fable ("The Snake") at his rallies.

Everyone knows what he is. The stunning thing is that #Cornyn , for a decade, thought the end result would ever be any different.
#ETTD

Cornyn lost Texas 64–36 to a man his own party impeached. Kneel or be next. https://twp.ai/9OVym0 #Texas #USPol #Politics #Cornyn #Paxton #2026 #Resistance

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Tuesday: John Cornyn lost Texas by 64 to 36 — to a man his own party impeached. The lesson every Republican heard? Kneel, or be next. The revenge tour has a sequel, and the casting's underway.
https://twp.ai/4hqjZw
#Texas #Cornyn #Paxton #Politics #USPol #LoyaltyOath #Republicans #2026 #Trump #Resistance
What Survives the Morning: The List With Your Name On It (Even Mine)

Before surgery, your body needs specific nutritional support for healing. Discover evidence-based recovery protocols and essential nutrients for post-op immune support and tissue repair.

Wendy The Druid
Tuesday, the floor moved. John Cornyn — four-term senator, seventy-three, the chamber's number-two Republican for six years — gone in a single day, 64 to 36. Beaten by a man his own party impeached in 2023 on bribery charges. The reason given, nine words long: "He was not supportive of me when times were tough." That's the whole machine. It's a list, and loyalty is the only line item — Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, and now Texas, each one a rehearsal for the next. But Cook Political just shifted that seat toward the Democrat. The cruelty, as ever, leaves a door ajar it never meant to.
https://twp.ai/4hqja9
#politics #texas #uspol #cornyn #paxton #2026 #democracy #resistance #news #trump #loyaltyoath #vote
Wait wait wait. In the March #Texas primary, #Cornyn got 907,000 votes to #Paxton getting 881,000. After Trump endorsed Paxton, Paxton won the runoff with 885,949. Cornyn lost with 501,725. If JUST Cornyn's March voters had shown up again, he would've won. Half of them didn't. Holy shit.

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Ken Paxton Impeachment

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted on 16 articles of impeachment, emerging victorious from another career scandal. He was accused of misusing the powers of his office to help his friend and donor Nate Paul, an Austin real estate investor who was under federal investigation. Paxton now returns, emboldened, to lead an institution that’s vital to the conservative cause. The September 2023 impeachment trial escalated a Texas GOP civil war and his supporters have promised swift retribution against fellow Republicans. 

The Texas Tribune

https://3m.fyi/posts/the-jilted-revanchists/

This group of Jilted Revanchists that Trump primaried are going to chat, plot, and monkey wrench away. If Paxton ends up in the Senate, Cornyns a loser. If Talarico wins, Cornyn's vindicated. And vindication's big with these fellas.

#Republican #Senate #Midterms #Paxton #Cornyn #GOP #Talarico #oligarchy #oligarchs #Theil #Musk #Fox #Newsmax #OANN #Massie #BillCasidy #Revanchism #JiltedRevanchists, #Texas #fascism #capitalism #PithHelmet #Popcorn #Vote #Voting #Turnout

The Jilted Revanchists

There's a budding new cell in DC worth keeping an eye on. They will try to hide but put on your pith helmets, part the reeds, listen, and watch. Who? Today Ken Paxton won the Republican primary run-off for one of the two Texas US Senate seats. He is a

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Now the question is will #Cornyn grow a set and stand up to #trump if for nothing else than revenge?

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With the Texas primaries, Trump has the Gop in his hand.

AGI - Republican Senator John Cornyn has become the latest victim of retribution by U.S. President Donald Trump, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton decisively defeated the senator in the Republican primary runoff for the Senate seat. According to Decision Desk HQ, Paxton secured approximately 64 percent of the vote, with over 95 percent of ballots counted late Tuesday night.

The state attorney general – who received last-minute endorsement from the president but has been plagued by numerous controversies, with accusations of corruption and abuse of power – beat the senior Republican senator just days after other Trump-backed candidates had already eliminated him as opponents in the primaries: Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky. And this despite Cornyn having voted approximately 92 percent with the loyal majority backing Trump.

But the president showed he doesn’t much care for small concessions. During the campaign, Cornyn had sought Trump’s support and highlighted his alignment with him. The president, however, in his last-minute support for Paxton, openly expressed his complaints about the senator, calling him “a good man” but adding that “he wasn’t near when things got tough.”

**Trump’s Congratulations**

The tycoon congratulated Paxton today, thanking the defeated candidate: “John will be my friend for a long time, while together we will see Paxton become a fantastic and sensible senator, respected by all,” he wrote on his social platform Truth. With this success, Fox News reported, there are 110 candidates backed by the president who have won the primaries. None of those who received his support lost the race, signaling that the tycoon still has full control of the base and the party.

But even if Trump had another positive evening, Republicans now face a particularly risky Senate race in Texas, which will likely force the party to divert resources from other key elections in the fall. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has already revised its assessment slightly to favor Democrats, after Paxton’s victory, although the Grand Old Party, as the Republican Party is known, remains the favorite for the November elections. But if Trump won for a day, from now until November, the majority will have to reckon with the revenge of the purged: the same Cornyn could make his vote count in the future. And the same applies to Cassidy and Massie.

#Texas #Trump #JohnCornyn #DonaldTrump #KenPaxton #Republican #Senate #DecisionDeskHQ #Paxton #95percent #BillCassidy #Louisiana #ThomasMassie #Kentucky #Cornyn #FoxNews #Republicans #CookPoliticalReport #Democrats #theGrandOldParty #theRepublicanParty #Cassidy #Massie

https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2026-05-27/primarie-texas-trump-gop-37258864/

"What’s more certain is that Trump did himself no favors by destroying #Cornyn’s career over a grudge that is over five years old. The move signaled to Republicans the futility of bending over backwards to help Trump, which is all Cornyn has done since then. Trump is destroying their personal hold on power, and that the one thing members of his party can’t abide. Even Republicans have their limits."

From @AmandaMarcotte's mouth to God's ears.

https://www.salon.com/2026/05/27/trump-will-regret-endorsing-ken-paxton-in-the-texas-senate-primary/

#USPol

Trump will regret endorsing Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate primary

Democrat James Talarico may win — and the president weakened his hold over the GOP

Salon.com