Cornyn says he talked to Trump about his approval

Senator John Cornyn, R -Texas – who is re -elected next year and faced with a main challenge by the general prosecutor of the state of Lone Star Ken Paxton – told NBC News that he had spoken to President Donald Trump.

“I told him about it several times. He is not ready to make this approval”, Cornyn said to the exit. “I think that when we start to advertise and fill the gap in the polls, I hope it will see good to do this approval, but we cannot wait.”

“I pointed out to him, and he knows that if he endured, the race would be over,” noted the senator, according to the point of sale.

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From left to right: Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, is seen in the American Capitol on Wednesday, April 9, 2025; President Donald Trump entered the White House on July 13, 2025 in Washington, DC; The Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, speaks during the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 23, 2024, at National Harbor, MD. (From left to right: Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images; Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

Cornyn spent more than two decades in the Senate – before taking office at the end of 2002, he was a attorney general of Texas, the position that Paxton is currently held.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Cornyn Campaign’s main advisor Matt Mackowiak said that “President Trump’s approval is the most powerful approval in modern history of the Republican Party”.

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“Senator Cornyn and President Trump are good friends and nearby allies and Senator Cornyn is proud to have voted with President Trump 99.2% of the time when he was in office. We respect that the president will take his time to make a decision and, in the meantime, we focus on a first first rate campaign, like Senator Cornyn.”

Fox News Digital also contacted the White House and in Paxton’s campaign to comment.

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Paxton’s wife, Texas State Senator Angela Paxton, a republican, said in social media publications last week that after “after 38 years of marriage”, she “asked for divorce for biblical land”.