{"id":2576448,"date":"2026-03-05T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maga-backlash-if-trump-endorses-cornyn-lauren-green\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:34:56","slug":"maga-backlash-if-trump-endorses-cornyn-lauren-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maga-backlash-if-trump-endorses-cornyn-lauren-green\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA backlash if Trump endorses Cornyn: Lauren Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaga-backlash-if-trump-endorses-cornyn-lauren-green%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2576448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Washington Examiner report centers on how a potential Trump endorsement in the Texas Senate race between John Cornyn adn Ken Paxton could provoke pushback from MAGA voters, with Lauren Green arguing that many supporters prefer an outsider who aligns with Trump over an establishment figure like Cornyn. It notes that Trump teased an endorsement and might pressure the non-endorsed candidate to withdraw, while other Republicans such as Thune and Barrasso have already backed Cornyn, signaling intra-party dynamics ahead of the runoff. beyond the Senate race, the piece also covers related Texas politics, including Democrats\u2019 caution after James talarico\u2019s nomination, Dan Crenshaw losing his reelection bid to Steve Toth, Tony Gonzales heading to a runoff, and Gov. greg Abbott winning his primary to face Gina Hinojosa in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-gop-picked-up-seats-in-house-picked-up-state-legislatures-picked-up-governorship-held-the-senate-but-sniffy-joe-won-not-a-chance\/\" title=\"IMPOSSIBLE: GOP Picked Up Seats in House, Picked Up State Legislatures, Picked Up Governorship, Held the Senate -- But Sniffy Joe Won?... NOT A CHANCE\">general election<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">MAGA voters will be &lsquo;up in arms&rsquo; if Trump endorses Cornyn over Paxton: Lauren Green<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2522671\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> congressional reporter Lauren Green said that President Donald Trump can expect pushback from his voting base if he endorses Sen. John Cornyn&rsquo;s (R-TX) reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4480536\/trump-teases-texas-senate-endorsement-reports-john-cornyn\/\">Trump said he is going to endorse a candidate<\/a> in the Republican Senate primary runoff between Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after the two candidates failed to garner 50% of the vote in Tuesday&rsquo;s election. The president also said he will be asking the candidate he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t endorse to &ldquo;immediately&rdquo; withdraw from the race.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4480596\/railway-reveal-locomotive-america-250-pride\/\">Railway giants reveal locomotives bearing America 250 pride to crisscross United States&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4478124\/obama-administration-enriched-iranian-regime-despite-evil-nature-guy-benson\/\">Obama administration &#8216;enriched&#8217; Iranian regime despite &#8216;evil nature&#8217;: Guy Benson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4477971\/trump-still-hit-hard-butler-rally-death-us-conflict-iran-salena-zito\/\">Trump still hit &#8216;hard&#8217; by Butler rally death amid US conflict with Iran: Salena Zito<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Green said Democratic Senate nominee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4480545\/gop-rushes-define-talarico-cornyn-paxton-overtime-trump\/\">James Talarico<\/a> has &ldquo;a three-month cushion&rdquo; to campaign if Cornyn and Paxton engage in a runoff election, and the two Republicans will spend &ldquo;a lot of money and a lot of time&rdquo; campaigning against each other instead of against Talarico. At the moment, Green said Trump is likely to endorse Cornyn, citing how Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is &ldquo;really&rdquo; pushing the incumbent candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4474954\/gavin-newsom-book-tour-missteps-national-campaign-growing-pains\/\"><strong>NEWSOM BOOK TOUR MISSTEPS EXPOSE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN &lsquo;GROWING PAINS&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, however that shakes out, I think that there will be some blowback there. I think that if Trump asks Paxton to step down, I talked to a lot of strategists today, the MAGA base is going to be very up in arms that the president is backing an institutionalist,&rdquo; Green said on LiveNOW from Fox on Wednesday. &ldquo;But then I also think that there are a lot of supporters that support Senator Cornyn that are not willing to support Attorney General Paxton just because he is somewhat scandal-ridden.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzGjq_I7ywI?si=CHJPVUQvSSvxUIf2&amp;start=874\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>Green said an issue Cornyn faces is an &ldquo;area&rdquo; of Trump voters who &ldquo;don&rsquo;t think&rdquo; they resonate with Cornyn or how &ldquo;institutional&rdquo; he is. She said many view Cornyn as &ldquo;a Bush Republican,&rdquo; something contrary to Trump&rsquo;s image as an &ldquo;outsider&rdquo; in politics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4480750\/gop-trump-cornyn-president-teases-decision\/\">Thune said it would be &ldquo;enormously helpful&rdquo; if Trump got involved in this race<\/a>, and an early endorsement &ldquo;saves everybody a lot of money.&rdquo; Both Thune and Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) have backed Cornyn over Paxton, with the latter citing that Democrats have &ldquo;the energy and enthusiasm&rdquo; since Democratic turnout was higher than Republican turnout in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-trump-religious-groups-begin-turning-up-heat-on-gop-to-take-action-on-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" title=\"Pro-..., Religious Groups Begin Turning Up Heat On GOP To Take Action On Marjorie Taylor ...e\">primary race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4481189\/democrats-sober-talarico-nomination-texas\/\"><strong>DEMOCRATS CAUTIOUS AFTER TALARICO NOMINATION IN RED TEXAS: &lsquo;EVERYTHING HAS TO GO RIGHT&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides the Senate primary race, on Tuesday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) lost <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4479177\/crenshaw-toth-texas-gop-primary\/\">his reelection bid<\/a> to challenger state Rep. Steve Toth. Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4481247\/tony-gonzales-admits-affair-staffer-suicide\/\">Tony Gonzales<\/a> (R-TX) is also heading to a runoff <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4478740\/tony-gonzales-brandon-herrera-gop-primary-texas\/\">against his opponent, Brandon Herrera<\/a>, on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is seeking a fourth term as governor and won his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >primary race easily<\/a> with over 80% of the vote. He will face <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4480149\/who-is-gina-hinojosa-greg-abbott-challenger-texas-governor-race\/\">Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa<\/a> in the general election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump endorsing Cornyn over Paxton sparks MAGA backlash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2576449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-collage-631a1ylb8-1772725478848-e1772728752355.jpg?1772710758&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4265,22362,75140,5656,3634],"class_list":["post-2576448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-backlash","tag-cornyn","tag-lauren-green-2","tag-maga","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-collage-631a1ylb8-1772725478848-e1772728752355.jpg?1772710758&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576452,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576448\/revisions\/2576452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}