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John Cornyn’s Failure To Fight For The SAVE Act Cost Him Trump’s Endorsement

Republican primary voters want candidates who will fight for the MAGA movement, not institutionalized RINOS who won’t.  

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As the longest-running primetime scripted series, The Simpsons has delivered a mountain of memorable TV moments in its 36-plus years on the air. The most hilariously heartbreaking happened in Season 4, with an episode titled, “I Love Lisa.”

If you’re a Simpsons fan you know. If you’re not, I won’t bore you with a lot of details. But things end very badly for poor Ralph Wiggum, the second-grade’s village idiot, when he declares his love for second-grade intellectual Lisa Simpson on live TV. A gesture of kindness turns to horror when Lisa, furious and fed up, screams that she doesn’t like Ralph, has never liked him, and that the cherished Valentine’s Day card she had given him was offered out of pity, not affection. 

“You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half,” big brother Bart tells Lisa as he plays back in agonizing slow motion the video tape immortalizing Ralph’s obliterated heart.  

33 years ago today, Lisa Simpson broke Ralph Wiggum’s heart on live TV. #TheSimpsons episode “I Love Lisa” first aired February 11, 1993. pic.twitter.com/tslwwrn0pU— On This Day in Simpsons History 🇺🇦 (@dailysimpsons) February 12, 2026

33 years ago today, Lisa Simpson broke Ralph Wiggum’s heart on live TV. #TheSimpsons episode “I Love Lisa” first aired February 11, 1993. pic.twitter.com/tslwwrn0pU

I imagine the moment of heartbreak when four-term Texas Sen. John Cornyn learned that President Donald Trump’s coveted endorsement was going to his Senate primary challenger instead. In the parlance of Lisa’s locomotive-themed Valentine’s Day card, Trump did not “choo-choo choose” Cornyn. He choo-choo chose real conservative Ken Paxton, the Lone Star State’s “MAGA warrior” attorney general. 

And Cornyn — with his RINO instincts, pointedly his unwillingness to fight hard for Trump’s top election-integrity legislation request — has only himself to blame.

‘An America First Patriot’: Trump Endorses Paxton In High-Stakes Texas Senate Primaryhttps://t.co/FnNoI4Dqwq— The Federalist (@FDRLST) May 19, 2026

‘An America First Patriot’: Trump Endorses Paxton In High-Stakes Texas Senate Primaryhttps://t.co/FnNoI4Dqwq

Perhaps more crushing is the fact that by all accounts Trump was on the cusp of giving Cornyn his stamp of approval after March’s primary election, when Paxton and the incumbent swamp creature finished within 1.2 percentage points of each other. Neither scored a majority, necessitating next Tuesday’s runoff. 

And that’s the other crushing blow. Trump’s endorsement arrived one week before the election. Ouch! 

Cornyn told a gathering of Plains Cotton Growers in Lubbock Tuesday that he’s “not giving up the fight.” But ouch!

“I know who gets to choose our senators, and it’s the people of Texas,” the incumbent Republican........

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