John Thune burned through over $100 million in GOP donor dollars through the Senate Leadership Fun to try and save RINO John Cornyn across the finish line in Texas.
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Republican Senate Leader John Thune just oversaw one of the biggest, most wasteful political disasters in modern history. The D.C. establishment burned through over $100 million in GOP donor dollars through the Senate Leadership Fund—all to drag establishment favorite John Cornyn across the finish line in Texas.
The Uniparty threw everything they had at the Lone Star State. They ran a relentless, multi-million dollar smear campaign to protect one of their own.
The result? A political earthquake. Cornyn didn’t just lose the primary runoff; he was rejected in a double-digit landslide by grassroots-backed Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The Reality of Uniparty Priorities
While Thune and the D.C. swamp found nine figures to protect an incumbent who routinely compromised with Democrats on gun control and foreign aid, look at what they ignored:
- $100,000,000+ spent to defend a RINO.
- $0.00 spent by leadership to force through the SAVE America Act—the bare-minimum legislation needed to protect our borders and stop non-citizens from voting.
This isn’t a strategic mistake; it’s a feature of the swamp. The establishment would rather spend millions fighting their own voters in safe red states than spend a single dime fighting the Left for secure elections.
The Texas runoff proved that grassroots momentum can completely outrun establishment money. But it also proved something much darker about Washington leadership:
