DAVID MARCUS: For the love of God, will John Thune finally listen to angry GOP voters
The filibuster, not any candidate, is what Republican voters are rejecting across the country
By David Marcus Fox News
Published May 27, 2026 10:47am EDT
There is no question that President Donald Trump is the most powerful person in the Republican Party, but it is equally clear that he was not the reason for four-term Texas Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, getting trounced in his primary Tuesday night. That was all the voters.
When Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over Cornyn late last week, the die was already cast. The president, not surprisingly, just wanted his name associated with the win, and that is something that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., desperately needs to understand.
Thune now has the ignoble distinction of being the only Republican Senate majority leader ever to lose two sitting members to primary challenges in one cycle. There was Sen. Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, before Cornyn, and that doesn’t count Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who declined to seek re-election rather than being trounced himself.
Democrats and the Left explain this sunsetting of so many GOP senators as the cult of Trump at work. CNN’s Van Jones gravely intoned that, "Trump betrayed a decent, honorable man… he destroyed the career of a U.S. senator." This is nonsense that Republicans must not fall for.
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