National Zero has been trying to put out a grand comprehensive piece on the SAVE Act but events continue to conspire against completing such a (relatively) ambitious project – including the increasingly connected soap opera of the Texas GOP Senate primary. Wednesday saw a visible increase in panic on incumbent John Cornhole Cornyn’s part in this convoluted tit-for-tat game to defeat Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton in the fraught quest to win convicted felon President Trump’s affections, starting with the New York Post printing Cornyn’s op-ed calling for a filibuster exception for the draconian voter suppression bill. Cornyn was obviously full of shit, probably had ChatGPT write it for him, and that Paxton forced him to react was painfully obvious.
If it was a principled stand he sure as hell wouldn’t be going all “talk to the hand” to a reporter in the goddamned Capitol, lol. At least face her and try to sell the kayfabe, you freaking weenie.
That was this morning. Just a little while ago CNN laid out, and pretty comprehensively so, how Cornyn’s fears are coming to fruition: A Trump minion tells the network that Paxton’s vow to drop out if the Senate passes the SAVE Act was a “genius move” and got Trump to back off from showering Cornyn with the golden, glorious endorsement that he’d been “gravitating” toward last week.
In fact Donald himself loved the idea so much that, as Politico reported on Tuesday, he’s just not going to endorse until the Senate passes the bill which led Cornyn, at zero political cost since it (all but certainly) isn’t happening, to assert that he’s all for bending the rules to appease the God-King.
“The survival instinct is a powerful one,” a Cornyn ally told CNN of the op-ed.
You can’t beat Ken Paxton in a runoff that cost you $100M to get in—so now you’re hoping Paxton will just drop out because President Trump likely won’t endorse you. Sad.
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) March 11, 2026
You probably already guessed how it was received by the MAGA chuds but here’s a reply anyway.