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Thune And GOP Establishment Fight Harder For Worthless Cornyn Than SAVE Act

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05.03.2026

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Thune And GOP Establishment Fight Harder For Worthless Cornyn Than SAVE Act

The establishment GOP will stop at nothing to keep its power to do nothing.

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Texans and MAGA voters’ first instinct if President Donald Trump follows through with his reported endorsement of Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas primary will be anger. The real object of their ire, however, is not Trump but Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has spent more time campaigning to save another GOP establishment pawn from losing his upper chamber seat than he has saving the country from the clutches of the radical left.

It should not be difficult for a Republican trifecta to pass popular legislation enshrining the GOP’s election integrity agenda — or any other useful conservative policy — in law. Doing so would not only insulate Republicans from some of the shenanigans that have plagued elections all across the country, but it would also prove to Americans that members of the red party have earned reelection come November.

Yet, with Thune at the helm, the Senate has repeatedly stalled the SAVE America Act. Despite possessing a procedural option that would force Democrats to publicly explain their opposition to photo ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements in federal elections, Thune resorted to excuses about Senate bandwidth and practiced failure theater to get out of his responsibility to represent Republican voters.

This is classic failure theater from Thune. He doesn’t........

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