Paxton Exposes Cornyn’s Decades of Betrayal: Four-Term Senator Sided with Trump’s Enemies While Texans Weren’t Watching
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent 24 years watching Senator John Cornyn play both sides—and he’s done staying silent.
In a wide-ranging interview, Paxton systematically dismantled Cornyn’s carefully constructed MAGA facade, exposing a career politician who championed Jack Smith, defended James Comey, praised Lisa Monaco, and told Texans that “Donald Trump’s day is over” during the last election cycle.
The gloves are off heading into their Republican runoff election.
The Master Chess Move That Exposed Cornyn’s Cowardice
Paxton made waves by announcing he would drop out of the race on one condition: the Senate must eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, President Trump’s cornerstone voter integrity legislation.
The move was brilliant political theater with serious policy implications.
“My number one campaign message has been on election integrity,” Paxton explained. “The most important thing we can do to save this country is to protect our elections in states that refuse to do that.”
President Trump has withheld his endorsement in the race, demanding the Senate pass the SAVE America Act first. Paxton’s gambit puts the onus squarely on Cornyn to either support eliminating the filibuster or reveal his true colors.
Cornyn has remained conspicuously silent.
All Talk, Zero Action: The Cornyn Way
“He’s asking the State of Texas for six more years. He’s been there for 24 years,” Paxton said bluntly. “I can’t vote in the Senate right now—I feel like I’m having more influence over the Save America Act than he has, and I’m not even there.”
The contrast couldn’t be starker.
Paxton, operating from the Texas Attorney General’s office, has moved the needle on election integrity more than a four-term senator with supposed institutional power and influence.
“This is the guy that supposedly can get things done,” Paxton continued. “He’s promised the State of Texas that he’s the guy, he’s conservative, he’s pro-Trump. He cares about the Save America Act, but he’s the only one that can actually get it done. And right now he’s not getting it done.”
It’s classic Cornyn—lip service to MAGA with zero follow-through.
The Cornyn-Monaco Connection: Supporting Trump’s Persecutors
Perhaps nothing reveals Cornyn’s true allegiances more than his enthusiastic support for Lisa Monaco, Joe Biden’s Deputy Attorney General who helped orchestrate the Russia collusion hoax during the Obama administration.
Video footage shows Cornyn championing Monaco from the Senate floor during her nomination.
“Lisa Monaco is another story,” Paxton said. “That just adds weight to what I’ve been saying: that John Cornyn does not represent the values of Texas or Republicans. He’s so aligned with many of the Democratic causes.”
The Monaco endorsement isn’t an isolated incident.
Cornyn’s record reveals a pattern of supporting the very people who weaponized the federal government against President Trump: Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, James Comey, and Robert Mueller.
“He has talked a big game about loving Donald Trump,” Paxton observed. “But if you look at what he’s actually done—supporting the people that tried to destroy Donald Trump, and even during the election coming out saying that Donald Trump’s day is over—everything that John Cornyn did was designed to make sure that Donald Trump did not get reelected.”
Even Radical Leftists See Through Cornyn’s Act
In a stunning moment of bipartisan clarity, radical leftist Rep. Jasmine Crockett praised Cornyn on MSNBC.
“I actually don’t hate Senator Cornyn at all,” Crockett said. “And right now, what we have is a Senator who actually is a real Republican who’s doing everything that he can to make it seem like he’s a MAGA Republican so that he can get through his primary.”
Paxton’s response was immediate: “I rarely agree with her, but on this one, she hit the nail on the head.”
Cornyn himself told Crockett he wanted to be her “dance partner in the Senate.”
Let that sink in.
The $100 Million Question
Despite massively outspending Paxton—close to $100 million versus just over $4 million—Cornyn barely edged out the Attorney General in the primary.
The math doesn’t add up for Cornyn’s electability argument.
“The argument has been from the Cornyn campaign that I’m going to be very expensive to get elected. I’m thinking the facts defy that,” Paxton noted. “They’re close to $100 million. They’re going to spend at least another $50 million in a runoff, maybe $100 million, and then have to go spend money in the general election, probably $200 million, maybe $150 million.”
“This idea that somehow I’m more expensive is ridiculous,” he added. “They’re not telling the truth.”
The Real John Cornyn Will Return
Paxton warned Texans about what happens if Cornyn survives the primary.
“We started getting the fake John Cornyn. And we’ve had the fake John Cornyn who loves Donald Trump, who was for the border wall, who’s not for amnesty, who didn’t vote with Biden to restrict Second Amendment rights, who didn’t vote with Biden to get Afghan refugees over here without being vetted, who didn’t massively increase the federal deficit from $6.2 trillion to $38 trillion.”
“Well, guess what? The real John Cornyn did all of that stuff—and the real John Cornyn is coming back the day the primary is over.”
That’s the Cornyn track record: voting with Biden to gut the Second Amendment, supporting unvetted Afghan refugee resettlement, championing amnesty, and exploding the federal deficit.
Performance Theater vs. Real Leadership
The contrast between these candidates represents the fundamental choice facing the Republican Party.
On one side: a career politician who’s spent four decades mastering the art of saying one thing to voters while doing another in Washington.
On the other: a conservative fighter who’s actually delivered results on election integrity, religious freedom, and constitutional governance.
“I just don’t get how this guy has stayed around so long, but it’s clearly because no one’s challenged him, and no one’s brought this stuff up,” Paxton said.
That’s changing now.
The Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher
The winner of this runoff will face James Talarico, a radical leftist who claims “God is non-binary” and that Christians have a “moral obligation” to support men competing in women’s sports.
Paxton’s strategy is straightforward: tell Texans the truth.
“The way we defeat him is let people know what he actually believes. If Texans know what he believes, there’s no way this guy is going to win,” Paxton said. “This idea that he wants to abolish ICE, that he thinks that God is non-binary, that he thinks Christians have a moral obligation to make sure that men play women’s sports—this guy has some very radical ideas that I guarantee you a high percentage of Texans would be offended by.”
The general election should be straightforward for any genuine conservative.
The real fight is exposing which Republican actually represents Texas values—and which one has spent 24 years pretending.
Texans deserve a senator who will fight for election integrity, support President Trump’s agenda without qualification, and stand against the weaponization of federal law enforcement.
They don’t need another six years of political theater from a senator whose best friends include Jasmine Crockett and Lisa Monaco.
The choice is clear. The question is whether enough Texans will see through the expensive advertising blitz to recognize it.
