Posted on 03/11/2026 5:12:16 PM PDT by RandFan
President Donald Trump was gravitating toward endorsing Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn last week. But he and some top advisers grew frustrated after his intentions leaked to the press, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and the plan stalled.
Then Cornyn’s opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, announced on Friday that if the Senate passed the president’s voting restrictions bill — something Trump has grown particularly fixated on in recent weeks — he would consider dropping out of the runoff race. Paxton specified the GOP should lift the filibuster to do so, an idea many Republican senators oppose.
White House officials viewed the ploy as a “genius move,” as one Trump official described it, and it kept Paxton in the mix, at least temporarily. Now, Trump has latched onto the idea of tying his endorsement to the passage of his high-priority “SAVE America Act” — which, among other things, would impose new voter ID requirements.
That’s a significant headache for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who sees a Cornyn primary win as an important pillar of keeping the GOP’s Senate majority, and for the larger party, which has already seen around $100 million sunk into a bruising primary campaign before the contentious, 12-week runoff has even started.
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Reduce the Voting Rights bill to a single provision - photo ID.
My bad if you read it that way.
I don’t consider Gabbard as one of his “inner” circle of advisors which was implied by the article.
My feelings about Gabbard are expressed in this comment.
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3/11/2026, 8:33:59 AM · 85 of 133
Biblebelter to vivenne
To your observations, I agree with regard to the behavior of both men as Senators, but I think them both young enough then to have grown while working for Trump. But you’re right to be suspicious.
The filibuster will end if Dems takeover. It would have already been gone if Kamala won. At this point might as well pack as much as we can in to the next months.
Cornyn and his clique are a bunch of snakes in the grass. In most parts of Texas we know how to deal with snakes when we see them.
Promising Cornyn a pass if he votes for something is a shell game. Where's the vote, find the vote, win a prize....
The filibuster will end if Dems takeover.
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I don’t think the Dems will end the filibuster while a Republican is President. It won’t be useful to them because the Republican President could veto their bills.
Cornyn MUST not be re-elected!
Cornyn MUST not be re-elected!
Taking bets? They will drop it, ram through all of their priorities and make Trump veto them before 2028.
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