Unlike his other soon-to-be departing colleagues who have chosen rage and burning the house down over cooperation with President Donald Trump’s agenda, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is making a pretense at statesmanship, using his X account to wax philosophic and pontificate about matters before the United States Senate and the nation.
But Cornyn can’t hide his bitterness over being primaried after 24 years of holding the Senate seat. Cornyn’s posts and reposts on X reveal the festering well burbling underneath. Like this clear shot at Early Vote Action founder and election integrity activist Scott Presler, who was instrumental in helping to primary Cornyn.
Grifter https://t.co/Nu22P8OXGp
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 11, 2026
Back in March, when Cornyn thought he had a chance at Trump’s endorsement, he was singing a different tune about the talking filibuster and the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act.
— Wade Miller (@WadeMiller) June 27, 2026
Once Cornyn lost the endorsement and then the Texas primary runoff, he went back to his old tricks. Not only has he regularly dissed his colleague Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for keeping the SAVE America Act in the forefront and insisting the Senate use the talking filibuster to get it passed, but he is now ranting at the “keyboard warrior-geniuses and grifters” who he deems too ignorant of Senate rules and precedents to weigh in on the discussion.
Fantasy https://t.co/Fky9gu41XY
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 25, 2026
With Cornyn kneecapped, Presler has set his sights on Cornyn’s buddy, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD). Thune’s recalcitrant refusal to bring the SAVE America Act to the floor, not to mention his blocking President Trump from doing recess appointments, is obstruction poorly wrapped in parliamentary rules. Thune is no “Cocaine” Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Presler knows this.
On Thursday, Presler was barred from a South Dakota Republican Party dinner in the Leader’s home state, and he revealed that Thune was the one who directed he be barred. Presler showed video of his photo being distributed to alert those managing the entrance that Presler was not welcome. What made it worse is that they tried to lie and cover it up. As usual, Presler had the receipts, as our sister site PJ Media noted.
This latest successful move by Presler to keep attention focused on the SAVE America Act only deepened Cornyn’s intense anger, and his extreme bitterness oozed out of this thinly veiled X screed:
I marvel at the keyboard warrior-geniuses and grifters who are ignorant of Senate rules and precedents who have miraculously become experts in its arcane rules. Promising the moon and stars and yet destining Republicans for failure is a very effective way to demoralize our base…
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 27, 2026
I marvel at the keyboard warrior-geniuses and grifters who are ignorant of Senate rules and precedents who have miraculously become experts in its arcane rules. Promising the moon and stars and yet destining Republicans for failure is a very effective way to demoralize our base and elect more Democrats in the midterms.
If this is not thumbing your nose at the Republican base and the activists like Presler who do the hard work of getting these Republicans elected, while getting none of the credit, I don’t know what is. Those “keyboard warrior-geniuses and grifters” as he refers to them, filled up his mentions and rightly let him have it.
You do realize the “keyboard warrior-geniuses and grifters who are ignorant…” you so snidely refer to here Sen. Cornyn are voters? The same voters who elected Trump in 2016 and gave him a majority in Congress just like 2024.
Voters expect the President they elect w/ a majority…
— JamieRJN (@JamieRJN) June 27, 2026
You do realize the “keyboard warrior-geniuses and grifters who are ignorant…” you so snidely refer to here Sen. Cornyn are voters? The same voters who elected Trump in 2016 and gave him a majority in Congress just like 2024.
Voters expect the President they elect w/ a majority GOP Congress they elected to implement the agenda they supported when they voted all of this in.
Instead? You RINO globalist puppet shills are blocking President Trump’s appointments and agenda. We see it and despise every single one of you who are in on it! Even more so than Democrats.
Who have been the ones doing the work to “demoralize our base?” It certainly isn’t the activists or advocates for election integrity. Cornyn, Thune, and the rest of the GOP-e ilk do this very well by just being themselves.
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Election Wizard illuminated this quite nicely.
I marvel at RINO members who get crushed in their primaries and think they have anything of value left to offer the Republican Party.
The base isn’t demoralized by high expectations. It’s demoralized by careerists who treat conservative victories as optional, then act shocked…
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) June 27, 2026
I marvel at RINO members who get crushed in their primaries and think they have anything of value left to offer the Republican Party.
The base isn’t demoralized by high expectations. It’s demoralized by careerists who treat conservative victories as optional, then act shocked when the base demands results instead of more process theater.
You’ve been in the Senate since 2002…long enough to master every arcane rule and precedent, yet somehow never quite enough to deliver on the big promises when it actually mattered.
Voters aren’t “keyboard warriors” for noticing that the same club that blocked Trump’s agenda, slow-walked judges, and folded on spending and border security now lectures everyone else about “Senate rules” as an excuse for yet another round of nothing-burger outcomes.
That one’s gonna leave a mark. Commenter Jim Verdi calls it like it is: Cornyn’s butthurt, and continues to act out of that instead of his obligation to the people of Texas.
I marvel at feckless Senators such as yourself who refuse to do whatever you can to pass common sense legislation that 90 percent of the country wants done just because you had your feelings hurt.
— Jim Verdi (@jjverdi) June 27, 2026
Who’s the adult in the room? Apparently it isn’t John Cornyn. Somebody give him his binky and pat his back.
I marvel at a bitter, washed-up has-been who got crushed by nearly 30 points in his own primary and still has the gall to lecture everyone else about ‘demoralizing the base.’
You’ve been cashing a Senate paycheck since 2002. You know every arcane rule and precedent because you…
— SMD Unfiltered (@SMDUnfiltered) June 27, 2026
I marvel at a bitter, washed-up has-been who got crushed by nearly 30 points in his own primary and still has the gall to lecture everyone else about ‘demoralizing the base.’
You’ve been cashing a Senate paycheck since 2002. You know every arcane rule and precedent because you helped build the swamp that hides behind them.
The SAVE America Act is popular and the base wants it passed by any means: reconciliation, override the parliamentarian with JD Vance in the chair, or a 24/7 talking filibuster.
But you’d rather whine about ‘keyboard warriors’ and ‘grifters’ while doing exactly nothing.
The focus of Cornyn’s ire, Scott Presler himself, also responded to Cornyn’s craptastic take.
Wouldn’t it have been better to spend $150 million building voter registration operations in each of the swing states?
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) June 27, 2026
Exactly. Instead, the Republican elites spent it on Cornyn’s race to prop up this ineffectual and unresponsive incumbent. Americans expect their representatives to fight for conservative aims and get results when it truly matters, and not make excuses. This post shows clearly why TX Attorney General Ken Paxton is the Republican Senate nominee for Texas, and Cornyn is relegated to temper tantrums on X.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
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