Trump would go on to easily win the nomination and carry every battleground state in the general election
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Cornyn would hew closely to the president for the first 16 months of his second administration, hoping at the outside chance of his endorsement or to keeping him from weighing in at all.
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His campaign began running an advertisement last summer, part of an astounding nearly-$100-million air war by the senator and allied groups, with Cornyn looking into the camera and saying, “The reporter voted with President Trump 99% of the time
John Cornyn tried for more than a year to show Donald Trump and Texas Republicans that he and the president were on the same team
Jeff Flake of Arizona, a Republican and Trump critic who didn’t seek reelection during the president’s first midterm in 2018
The senator had dismissed the project as “naive” during Trump’s 2016 campaign
Summary
As it turned out, it would never be enough. John Cornyn tried for more than a year to show Donald Trump and Texas Republicans that he and the president were on the same team. Cornyn posted a photo of himself reading Trump’s “The Art of the Deal.” He proposed legislation to rename a stretch of interstate in Trump’s honor. On Tuesday, Cornyn became the latest in a line of Republicans who lost their primaries after falling out of favor with a president with little tolerance for dissent and a seemingly insatiable appetite for retribution. Cornyn, on the other hand, “was disloyal to me,” Trump wrote on social media.