A Texas Senate seat is up for election this midterm cycle, and a major battle is being waged between the Establishment Republicans, who back John Cornyn, and the MAGA Republicans, who back Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. As perhaps should have been expected, Fox News threw in its lot with the RINO and tried to help him win.
For reference, the election has turned into a debacle, as the running of Wesley Hunt meant that neither Paxton nor Cornyn could reach the above-50% mark necessary to avoid a runoff. So, as a result, the GOP primary race will have to head to a runoff election between Cornyn and Paxton before the general election for the Senate seat.
Sen. Cornyn, the incumbent, has faced particular fire online for his connections to a gun control effort in which he tried helping Democrats push gun control on America. One poster, for example, said, “John Cornyn sold out our 2A rights when he helped Joe Biden pass the biggest gun control bill in decades.”
That poster went on to argue, commenting on how awful it was that Cornyn had pushed gun control, “Texas voters are now holding him accountable, and you know what he says? Anyone voting against him is ‘radical’. Excuse me? When did it become ‘radical’ to support our Constitutional rights? Texans deserve SO much better.”
Agreeing, a commenter on that post said, “Cornyn is a old Bush RINO and must be voted out”. Another wrote that at least Cornyn had been kept out of Senate leadership, saying, “Thank God he wasn’t made Senate Majority leader when Mitch stepped down. Most Senate Republicans knew he was bad news and didn’t even vote him back into leadership. In fact, he came in 4th in that vote.”
In any case, Fox News decided to throw its heft behind Sen. Cornyn leading up to the election in a desperate attempt to push him over the finish line, an effort that involved Cornyn spending over $100 million on this election. Pointing out that FNC support for Cornyn, one poster on X said, “Good old Fox News giving RINO Cornyn plenty of face time on election day. You can’t hate MSM enough.” Agreeing, a commenter said, “Thank you for posting this. Fox News is really getting on my nerves. They always put on these RINOs.”
And it wasn’t just on Tuesday, March 3, that FNC had Sen. Cornyn on. He also appeared on the network on Sunday, March 1, and pretended to burnish his MAGA credentials, saying, “If I’m the nominee, I’ll help President Trump by making sure that we carry the five new congressional seats as well as maintain this Senate seat and will help him continue his agenda through the last two years of his term of office.”
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Further, attacking Paxton, he said, “If the Democrats win, because we nominate a flawed candidate with incredible baggage like the attorney general, then that last two years of [Trump’s] agenda is jeopardized, as well as everybody down ballot that we need to continue to elect as Republicans.”
Watch Cornyn on Fox News on primary day here:
🚨MASSIVE BETRAYAL🚨Cornyn is calling America First patriots who are critical of him, “radical Republicans”. Cornyn supports Amnesty and is willing to burn $70 million so he can lose.
VOTE PAXTON!
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— Carlos Turcios (@Carlos__Turcios) March 3, 2026
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