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Cornyn launches bid to succeed McConnell as GOP leader
The Hill ^ | 02/29/2024 | AL WEAVER

Posted on 02/29/2024 8:48:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Thursday officially announced a run to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as Republican leader, setting up what is expected to be a hotly contested race for the top spot in the conference.

“I am asking my Republican colleagues to give me the opportunity to succeed Leader McConnell,” Cornyn said in a statement. “Throughout my time I’ve built a track record of listening to colleagues and seeking consensus, while leading the fight to stop bad policies that are harmful to our nation and the conservative cause.”

Cornyn pointed to his work in leadership as whip and atop the Senate GOP campaign arm, as well as his recent stretch outside of leadership.

The Texas Republican added that the Senate is “broken” and that he could play a “major role” in putting it back together.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cornyn; gop; leader; mcconnel; republicans; rino; senate
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To: ChicagoConservative27

RINOs of a feather flock together!


41 posted on 02/29/2024 9:18:52 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People who want this job this bad are the last people you want to have them.

I think Ted Cruz is the best candidate.


42 posted on 02/29/2024 9:18:58 AM PST by bigbob ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Voters are so tired of old. No white hairs.


43 posted on 02/29/2024 9:19:23 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NO.


44 posted on 02/29/2024 9:20:20 AM PST by bobonthejob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not just no, but HELL NO!


45 posted on 02/29/2024 9:21:05 AM PST by Danie_2023 (yi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

+1


46 posted on 02/29/2024 9:21:13 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good G-d in Heaven, NO.


47 posted on 02/29/2024 9:21:56 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m appalled that Cornyn is my Senator.


48 posted on 02/29/2024 9:22:01 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Doulos1

“Why the hell can’t Texas get rid of this bastard?”

Because of the ghost of LBJ and Ann Richards still haunting us. And because they’re importing millions of “new Democrat voters” as we speak.


49 posted on 02/29/2024 9:23:06 AM PST by Danie_2023 (yi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cornyn is one of my Senators. I knew him before he first ran for any public office and regularly practiced before him when he was a district judge in the late 1980s. I supported him when he ran for the Texas Supreme Court back in 1990, when Texas began transitioning from an all democrat state to an all Republican state, and in 1998, when he was elected as the first Republican Attorney General in Texas since Reconstruction.

I say with all sincerity, “OH, HELL NO!”


50 posted on 02/29/2024 9:23:06 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Mafe

Been impressed with Mike Lee lately. If that’s the real him (you can never know with U.S. Senators), he could be a decent choice.


51 posted on 02/29/2024 9:24:02 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just another capitulator.


52 posted on 02/29/2024 9:41:36 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about Cajun JFK?


53 posted on 02/29/2024 9:57:39 AM PST by bassmaner (He y commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh Puhleeze... NO!


54 posted on 02/29/2024 9:59:46 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cornyn is the last clown America needs for Leader of the Senate.


55 posted on 02/29/2024 10:27:28 AM PST by chopperk (s to )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No way to that rino scumbag..
no to Thune,Barasso and Ernst - all just globalist scum.
JD Vance or Rand Paul may be acceptable


56 posted on 02/29/2024 11:45:24 AM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cornyn = RINO turd.


57 posted on 02/29/2024 12:12:36 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Mafe
I’d like to see Rand Paul or Mike Lee as Majority Leader but we know what the odds of that are.

Rand Paul, all the way.NO! NO! NO! NO! to Cornyn!

58 posted on 02/29/2024 12:35:55 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: All

Sen John Thune of SD, minority whip, has been mentioned for the job.

From his web site.

PROTECTING LIFE

Standing Up for Life

As a member of Congress, I have a 100 percent pro-life voting record and have consistently supported a ban on abortion. For my work to promote a culture of life, I have consistently received an A+ on the Susan B. Anthony List pro-life scorecard.

I am proud to stand beside all those who work to secure the right to life of unborn Americans. The truth is that every human being, born and unborn, is created in the image and likeness of God and has infinite dignity and value. I’ll continue fighting in Congress to defend those who cannot speak for themselves.


59 posted on 02/29/2024 5:24:09 PM PST by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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