{"id":2605118,"date":"2026-05-20T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rino-crash-out-over-trumps-paxton-endorsement-shows-how-much-the-gop-hates-its-voters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:45:57","slug":"rino-crash-out-over-trumps-paxton-endorsement-shows-how-much-the-gop-hates-its-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rino-crash-out-over-trumps-paxton-endorsement-shows-how-much-the-gop-hates-its-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"In Texas Primary, RINOs Show How Much They Hate Their Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Frino-crash-out-over-trumps-paxton-endorsement-shows-how-much-the-gop-hates-its-voters%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=2605118&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 article argues that Senate Republicans are reacting with unusually intense anger after President Trump endorsed Ken Paxton over John Cornyn in texas\u2019s republican Senate primary.It describes GOP leaders responding with visible reluctance or frustration-casting the episode as a spectacle of party infighting rather than ideological disagreement-while noting that similar bitterness has surfaced after Louisiana voters ousted Bill Cassidy, with senators allegedly expressing their disapproval through public gestures.<\/p>\n<p>It then challenges the assumption that Cornyn adn Cassidy are core conservative champions. The piece claims both have repeatedly sided against Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-stop-inflation-from-hurting-americas-working-and-middle-class\/\" title=\"How To Stop Inflation From Hurting America...s Working And Middle Class\">voters\u2019 interests<\/a>-citing examples such as support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reportedly-planning-an-executive-order-on-firearms-right-out-of-the-gate-but-his-big-bold-changes-wont-stop-there\/\" title=\"Biden Reportedly Planning an Executive Order on Firearms Right Out of the Gate, But His \u2018Big, Bold Changes... Won...t Stop There\">gun control<\/a>, skepticism toward conservatives, backing positions related to immigration amnesty or border policy, and voting patterns the author links to anti-Trump legal efforts and large spending initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Despite acknowledging that Republicans lost these races in red-state primaries, the article maintains that the real driver of the conference\u2019s fury is less about policy outcomes and more about protecting an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >entrenched party power structure<\/a>. It argues Republicans often posture against \u201cDemocrat overreach\u201d during elections but fail to deliver meaningful changes once in office, and it concludes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brutal-marjorie-taylor-greene-destroys-nasty-ga-election-official-gabe-sterling-after-his-latest-attack-on-president-trump-and-herself\/\" title=\"BRUTAL! Marjorie Taylor Greene DESTROYS Nasty GA Election Official Gabe Sterling After His Latest Attack on President Trump and Herself\">conservative voters<\/a> (including through Trump\u2019s endorsements) have shown they can disrupt this system-though doing so will require sustained focus and strategy.  <\/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<div>\n<p>The Senate GOP is having a full-blown meltdown at President Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/19\/an-america-first-patriot-trump-endorses-paxton-in-high-stakes-texas-senate-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decision<\/a> to endorse Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate Republican primary over establishment darling John Cornyn. And it is nothing short of glorious. <\/p>\n<p>Flanked by frowning members of Senate GOP leadership, Majority Leader John Thune somberly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theblaze\/status\/2056814257912590613?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reaffirmed<\/a> his support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/05\/10-times-john-cornyn-betrayed-trump-and-maga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gun control-loving<\/a> Cornyn, whom he called a \u201cprincipled conservative.\u201d Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewDesiderio\/status\/2056779449694114187?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> \u201cremained stone-faced (appeared to be intentional) for about 20 seconds\u201d when asked for his reaction to Trump\u2019s endorsement of Paxton. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewDesiderio\/status\/2056779449694114187?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> to have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraEWeiss16\/status\/2056811040919204216?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thrown<\/a> a temper tantrum at the president\u2019s refusal to back Cornyn. <\/p>\n<p>The Senate GOP\u2019s little pity parade continued into the members\u2019 Tuesday lunch over the recent ouster of Louisiana Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/bill-cassidy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Cassidy<\/a>. The senators <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/2056785523436363990?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> demonstrated their disapproval with Republican voters\u2019 decision to give Cassidy the boot in the state\u2019s Saturday primaries by giving him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/11\/conservatives-cant-beat-democrats-until-they-defeat-the-rinos-in-their-own-party-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conservatives Can\u2019t Beat Democrats Until They Defeat The RINOs In Their Own Party First<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given this visceral reaction from the Republican conference, the casual observer may get the impression that Cornyn and Cassidy \u2014 both of whom hail from solid \u201cred states\u201d \u2014 are conservative stalwarts who play a vital role in advancing \u201cAmerica First\u201d priorities and stopping Democrat ones. <\/p>\n<p>But nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>In the decades he\u2019s served in the Senate, Cornyn has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/05\/10-times-john-cornyn-betrayed-trump-and-maga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a> gun control legislation, called conservatives \u201cterrorists,\u201d attacked efforts to investigate anti-Trump lawfare, signaled support for amnesty for illegal aliens, opposed a border wall, pushed a bill advancing critical race theory, and backed Biden-era spending bombs. Meanwhile, Cassidy has <a href=\"https:\/\/heritageaction.com\/scorecard\/members\/C001075\/118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassidy.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cassidy-votes-to-convict-president-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convicting<\/a> Trump during his second impeachment, <a href=\"https:\/\/heritageaction.com\/scorecard\/votes\/s240-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gun control<\/a>, massive spending bills, and gave credence to Democrat lawfare by <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/government\/2023\/08\/gop-senator-says-trump-should-drop-out-calls-classified-documents-case-almost-a-slam-dunk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demanding<\/a> Trump drop out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: DeSantis Beats Trump In 2024 Straw Poll At Top Conservative Summit\">2024 presidential race<\/a> after the Biden DOJ indicted him in a case over classified documents. <\/p>\n<p>All of these actions betray the fundamental interests of the Republican voters Cornyn and Cassidy were elected to represent. And yet, none of it is what\u2019s driving the Senate GOP conference to anger. <\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, many Senate Republicans are more furious at Cornyn\u2019s and Cassidy\u2019s prospective ousters than their shared history of stabbing GOP voters in the back.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t sound very \u201cprincipled,\u201d it\u2019s because it\u2019s not. It\u2019s petty vindictiveness that plagues most of the modern Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t care about beating Democrats. Nor do they care about advancing their voters\u2019 interests (see their ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/20\/john-cornyns-failure-to-fight-for-the-save-act-cost-him-trumps-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refusal<\/a> to pass the SAVE America Act.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/30\/republicans-would-rather-cede-power-to-democrats-than-their-own-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What it all boils down to is protecting the do-nothing system these Republicans have spent decades building, in which they feign outrage about Democrat overreach, campaign on fixing it, and then do absolutely nothing of consequence once given the power to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The survival of this entrenched status quo relies on a complacent GOP electorate that doesn\u2019t pay attention to what their elected officials are doing. What the Texas and Louisiana primaries show, however, is that conservative voters (and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/22\/trump-cant-drain-the-swamp-if-he-keeps-endorsing-its-worst-offenders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump<\/a>) have the ability to shatter this system. But it\u2019s going to take a lot of focus and strategy to make it happen. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate GOP melts down over Trump endorsing Ken Paxton over John Cornyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2605119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/John-Cornyn.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[35305,52777,61188,43964],"class_list":["post-2605118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-conservative-politics","tag-rinos-2","tag-texas-primary","tag-voter-anger"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/John-Cornyn.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605118","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605123,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605118\/revisions\/2605123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}