Cornyn Deletes Anti-Trump Group Message
that Could Kill Endorsement Bid for Runoff
Capitol Inside
May 10, 2026
U.S. Senator John Cornyn's hopes for an endorsement from President Donald Trump for a primary runoff election may be dead if they still had life in the wake of an apparent plug that he touted on social media on Saturday night from a group that's been the American leader's harshest and frequent critic in recent months.
Trump told reporters on Friday that he'd be picking sides "very soon" in the Texas Senate overtime clash that features Attorney General Ken Paxton and Cornyn as the incumbent who's seeking a new term after two dozen years in the job. The prediction market Kalshi gave Paxton a 61 percent chance of scoring the Trump endorsement if the president comes of the sidelines in the Texas runoff on May 26 before the votes are cast.
Trump made the same exact promise more that two months ago when he appeared geared to pitch his support behind the incumbent in the Senate runoff here. Sources said that Trump's team had a statement on Cornyn's behalf before holding off after MAGA loyalists who loathe the state's senior senator erupted in outrage over the prospects of an endorsement for the incumbent.
But Trump said on the day after the March 3 primary election that he would demand that the Texas Senate contender who failed to land his endorsement drop out of the race immediately. And Trump put the decision on-hold indefinitely after Paxton announced the following day that he would not quit the contest regardless of who the winner of the presidential endorsement turned out to be. Capitol Inside predicted at the time that Paxton would score Trump's support shortly before the runoff vote if he didn't stay on the fence until the GOP had a nominee for the Senate seat.
Trump vowed that he'd "make a decision" - with the caveat "maybe relatively soon" - when asked late last week about the battle for the Senate nomination in the Lone Star State. But Cornyn may have killed his chances for the Trump endorsement on Saturday when his campaign repost a message on X from the organization Republicans against Trump - an organization that's blasted the president at every turn several times a day.
The Republicans Against Trump tweet quoted from a Cornyn post on X the day before when he called Paxton "unfit" for the U.S. Senate. "By every standard that matters, Crooked Ken has failed the character test," Cornyn said in the initial post. "The corruption. The legal baggage. The years of self-serving distractions while Texas needed serious leadership."
Cornyn's camp deleted the @RpsAgainstTrump message on Sunday after Paxton and his allies flooded social media with reposts that are impossible to erase.
The anti-Trump Republicans have gone for the Trump jugular repeatedly day after day with posts that mock the president's actions and words while calling out his failures, false statements and gaffes.
The Republicans against Trump post a Truth Social message from the president about Pope Leo on Sunday. “As far as the pope is concerned, it’s very simple. Whether I make the Pope happy or I don’t make him happy: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” the group quoted Trump as saying.
"WTF is he talking about?" the Republicans against Trump said. "When did the Pope ever say Iran should have a nuclear weapon?"
The group repost a Mothers Day post from Trump on Truth Social that composed "in particular" for the "Mothers, Wives and Lovers of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, and Communists" who were doing everything in their power to destroy the country.
"This guy is a sociopath," the Republicans against Trump said in response to the president's Mothers Day message.
The group cited a Washington Post/Ipsos poll in a post on Saturday. "71% say Trump is not honest or trustworthy, and 67% say he doesn’t carefully consider important decisions — WaPo/Ipsos poll"
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