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Conservatives Are Driving Out RINOs From The Senate

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27.05.2026

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Conservatives Are Driving Out RINOs From The Senate

John Cornyn’s defeat was another strong message sent by Republican primary voters: fail the MAGA movement at your own political peril. 

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The weak-kneed Republican RINO. Elephas Minimus, or the spineless elephant. The Senate species commonly referred to as Republican in Name Only is hardly endangered, but conservative voters have been thinning their ranks.

The latest to fall is bull RINO John Cornyn, a four-term Texas senator manufactured in an establishment Republican lab.

Cornyn was summarily dismissed in Tuesday’s primary runoff election, suffering a 27-point shellacking to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn’s crushing defeat arrived one week to the day after President Donald Trump delivered his coveted endorsement to Paxton, whom the GOP’s top dog described as a “true MAGA warrior.”

Cornyn’s unprecedented defeat was another strong message sent by motivated Republican primary voters: fail the MAGA movement at your own political peril. 

‘The Primary Process was Bruising’

Cornyn’s support of Trump and his policies has long been conditional, dependent on which way the Texas senator believed the political winds to be blowing. He’s not alone on that front. Plenty of his Senate colleagues have done the same. For Cornyn, his fickle loyalty to Trump and key conservative values proved costly. 

In 2016, after Trump emerged victorious from a bareknuckle nomination........

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