Low info voters.......
Well a lot of people are occupied by many other things and
pulling the lever on a voting machine is a few minute process.
That’s if the decide to vote at all. Lots still don’t vote.
https://ballotpedia.org/John_Cornyn
In 2020, Cornyn won his Republican primary with 76 percent of the vote. He won the general with 53.5 percent of the vote, beating his Democrat challenger by almost 10 points.
The story is similar with Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.