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DAVID MARCUS: Sen Thune has no idea how mad the GOP base is at him

Senate majority leader's comments come as 60% of Texas Republicans voted against John Cornyn in primary over Save America Act inaction

By David Marcus Fox News

Published March 11, 2026 10:32am EDT

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About 60% of Texas Republicans voted last Tuesday to end John Cornyn’s career in the Senate, but it wasn’t really Cornyn they were rejecting. It was the feckless, do-nothing GOP Senate leadership that makes "Waiting for Godot" look like a "Fast and Furious."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wound up in a virtual tie with Cornyn, and headed to a runoff precisely because Republican voters, not just in Texas, but across the country, are incandescently angry at the GOP-controlled Senate’s inability to do, well, much of anything.

This righteous fury is why Paxton’s political play in the face of a runoff was so brilliant. He said that if the Senate would pass the Save America Act, and its voter ID provisions, he would drop out, saving President Donald Trump from having to swoop in with a decisive endorsement.

 Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks at a press conference in Washington,........

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