Only four years earlier, in the state’s last Senate election, Cornyn trampled relatively unknown dentist-turned investor David Alameel, while Republican Greg Abbott glided to victory by 20 points in the governor’s race against then-Democratic star Wendy Davis. by … “But I don’t expect that in the terrain of 2020 that Donald Trump will be a less polarizing or controversial leader of the Republican Party.”. Attacking West for being too liberal and tying him to those other Democrats could potentially boost him among Democratic base voters. A Cornyn campaign spokesperson reiterated the sentiment in response to her challenge Tuesday. He’s also raised questions about Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency to redirect federal spending on a border wall. Texas Take: Get political headlines from across the state sent directly to your inbox. Senator John Cornyn voted against regulating Congress regarding lobbyists and donations in 2007. Hegar finished with 22 percent in the March primary compared to 15 percent for West, both falling well short of the majority of the vote needed to become the nominee. “They start wherever they are.”. The move echoes other Republican efforts earlier this cycle, including in North Carolina, where a GOP super PAC funded by allies to Senate Republican leadership ran ads boosting a lesser-known challenger to national Democrats' preferred candidate.
"At this moment, I am focused on getting through Tuesday and winning this primary, and then moving on to make certain that we turn Texas blue," he said in the statement.
Hegar has consistently been the best-funded Democrat in the race, and had $1.6 million in the bank as of June 24 compared to just $160,000 for West. Whatever O’Rourke decides, he is easily - and potentially the only - real threat to Cornyn in Texas.
Sen. John Cornyn's campaign is launching a new TV ad Friday taking aim at one of his potential Democratic opponents, the latest in several steps his campaign has taken to meddle ahead of next week's Democratic primary runoff. Scott Applewhite), Get political headlines from across the state sent directly to your inbox, Beto O’Rourke’s web diary inspires derision and hope as 2020 presidential field takes shape, former Texas GOP Chairman Steve Munisteri, Beto O’Rourke is running for president, reshaping the 2020 Democratic primary, Houston Democrat Lizzie Fletcher: Life in the center of the political crossfire, Texas landowner tells Congress she doesn't want a border wall in her back yard, Gov. John Cornyn was born in Houston on February 2, 1952 and was raised in San Antonio. They launched a radio ad this week criticizing both candidates, which also portrayed West as "consistently liberal." Despite a generation of GOP dominance in the Lone Star State, demographic changes and urbanization have helped Democrats narrow that gap in statewide elections, culminating with Beto O’Rourke’s loss to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in November by less than three percentage points. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and his Democratic challenger, MJ Hegar, are set for their first debate, though Hegar wants more and Cornyn has said he is open to additional debates. He’s also put together an all-star campaign team, including John Jackson, who ran Abbott’s 2018 re-election campaign, and former Texas GOP Chairman Steve Munisteri, a veteran of two years in the Trump White House. His campaign aired a TV ad featuring West last year backed by much less money. For Cornyn, that will mean deftly navigating a relationship with Trump, who in terms of style, if not substance, comes from the opposite side of the Republican tracks. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his Democratic challenger, MJ Hegar, will debate on Oct. 9. Cornyn's campaign has booked at least $259,000 on TV over the next week, according to data from Advertising Analytics. “Turnout, turnout, turnout,” Munisteri said. Cornyn’s job approval ratings in Texas have hovered in the high 20s, though they spiked to 39 percent last October, a time of strong partisan feeling in advance of the midterm elections. (AP Photo/J. But for now, O’Rourke’s indecision simply adds a “Beto factor” to the list of unknowns for Team Cornyn. Cornyn (Republican Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Texas.He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.He advanced from the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.
At a time when newsroom resources and revenue across the country are declining, The Texas Tribune remains committed to sustaining our mission: creating a more engaged and informed Texas with every story we cover, every event we convene and every newsletter we send. He’s also joined other top Senate Republicans in repudiating Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria and Afghanistan. “I think the voters of Texas know me,” he said. Cornyn's new TV ad launching Friday focuses on state Sen. Royce West, who is running against veteran MJ Hegar in the runoff after they finished in the top two spots in the March primary. https://livingbluetx.com/2020/04/26-reasons-john-cornyn-voted-out
Steinhauser describes Trump as “the elephant in the room” who can nationalize state and local elections across America. During his tenure in Minneapolis, he won awards for his coverage of gang crime and city hall. John Cornyn (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Texas. Like many Texans, Cornyn also has shown a much more nuanced grasp of border security, emphasizing the need for technology and personnel as well as physical barriers on the U.S.-Mexico boundary. “As in the rest of my life, I don’t sweat too much the things I can’t control,” Cornyn said later in the week. “Cornyn really is the product of a previous political generation of Republicans in the state, and he is sometimes greeted as such, particularly by more ideologically oriented Republicans - the conservative core of the party.”, But if the anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-compromise wing of the GOP finds Cornyn less attractive, Henson added, “less attractive does not mean rejected.”. His current term ends on January 3, 2021. Cornyn previously said he's open to debating Hegar more than once, and his campaign said Tuesday it looks "forward to considering other opportunities."
Hegar, a former Air Force … Incumbent John Cornyn is pitching himself as a "steady hand on the wheel." The public posturing over debates has been much more muted than it was during the 2018 U.S. Senate race, when Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke spent months wrangling over the details.
O’Rourke, the former El Paso congressman and current Democratic rock star, is known to be mulling a 2020 presidential bid.
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On the flip side, Cornyn doesn’t command the same fervor of the GOP activists. But many Texas Democrats see the Senate race as the perfect fallback position for the idealistic 46-year-old who raised a record $80 million for his challenge to Cruz. He also taught public affairs reporting at the University of Minnesota, where he received his Master’s. Cornyn faces new threats in 2020 re-election bid, Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, speaks during a rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. “The trends that we’ve seen in terms of the time that’s passed is that Texas has continued to urbanize, it’s continued to attract people from all over the country and all over the world, growing rapidly.”, “Many of those people are open to supporting Republican candidates,” Steinhauser continued, “but in this era of Trump’s Republican Party, it’s a different calculation.”.
Standing from left are Intelligence Committee members Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Manny Garcia, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, says that Cornyn has failed to strongly define himself after three terms in office, something he attributes to a lack of the sort of “big character” Texans expect.
In 2003, he filed daily Iraq War dispatches for McClatchy Newspapers from the U.S. Central Command in Qatar. Their first debate will be moderated by Robert Hadlock and Sally Hernandez, news anchors for KXAN in Austin, as well as Gromer Jeffers Jr., a Dallas Morning News political writer. A narrator in the TV ad calls West a "liberal politician" and attacks him on abortion, guns and taxes, and also features his photo next to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Sens. Will Houston prepare for the next Laura before it’s too late? Cornyn said in an interview this month that he would debate Hegar "at least once, and I'm happy to do more."
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But broadly speaking, I think it’s going to turn out voters that might not otherwise turn out.”, Then again, Trumpism isn’t always easy to predict. To many Texas Republicans, O’Rourke represents Cornyn’s worst-case-scenario. In a Facebook Live event earlier this week, before Cornyn's campaign announced the TV ad, West criticized Cornyn's previous ads but also brushed aside the potential impact it would have. Abbott forces Harris County to close 11 mail ballot drop-off sites, leaving just one, Alvin football coach Tim Teykl resigns after racially insensitive remarks surface, Trump has enough support from Latinos to win Texas, study finds, Trump says he and first lady tested positive for coronavirus, High-profile Arkema trial ends with no convictions as Harris County judge acquits final defendants, 5 takeaways from Chronicle investigation into spread of COVID, Harris County keeps its 'stay home' stance, even as state reopens, Progress on post-Harvey flood control efforts remains slow. On Thursday, Cornyn purchased $77,000 in airtime on three cable networks from Friday through Tuesday: BET, CNN and MSNBC, according to data from Advertising Analytics. ". “It was a pre-Trump era,” said Republican strategist Brendan Steinhauser, who ran Cornyn’s 2014 campaign. In 2006, he covered the presidential election standoff in Mexico. While Cruz labeled O’Rourke “too liberal for Texas,” Democrats like the contrast of a youthful, relative outsider against a 67-year-old incumbent who earned his stripes the old-fashioned way: working his way patiently up the Senate GOP ladder.