Sen. John Cornyn of Texas has been a reliably Republican vote throughout his tenure in the U.S. Senate, but that wasn’t enough to gain Donald Trump’s support, as Trump backed his scandal-plagued challenger, Ken Paxton, in a successful primary challenge last month.
Now, Cornyn is speaking out in a New York Times interview, predicting a Republican wipeout in the midterm elections and a less-than-happy time for Trump in his last two years in office.
“If that’s the way friends treat you, you wonder about his enemies,” Cornyn said of Trump, who had declared Cornyn would “remain my friend for a long time to come” even as he endorsed Paxton.
Texas Republican John Cornyn slams Trump for his Ken Paxton endorsement:
“There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants… He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years… pic.twitter.com/j9bmzPXoGO
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“I think it is going to be a pretty bumpy ride for the next seven months,” Cornyn added, of the rest of this year.
“If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn told the newspaper. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants. But obviously that’s not what the senator’s role is supposed to be, especially in terms of checks and balances.”
“The fact that Mr. Cornyn in 2023 had expressed some misgivings about Mr. Trump running for re-election — fairly mild comments compared with some other Republicans — provided a line of attack against him by Mr. Paxton and lingered with the president,” the Times said.
Cornyn also looked ahead to the future.
“It’s going to make things harder, certainly more expensive in Texas, and make it harder around the country,” the senator said. “I don’t say that with any sort of desire for vengeance; I just think that’s the way it’s going to be. He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term, I think, because I think November is going to be a disaster.”
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