John Cornyn
John Cornyn ran for U.S. Senate in TX in 2026 as a Republican (lost).
American politician (born 1952)
Ran for U.S. Senate, TX, 2026 · Lost to James Talarico (Democratic). Unofficial result, not yet certified. Wikipedia
On the Texas ballot, Nov 3, 2026 U.S. Senator, 3 names on the official list. Election Day has passed; see the ballot as it was.Do you approve of John Cornyn?
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Races
- 2026 · U.S. Senate, TX · General · Republican · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2026 · State Senate, TX District U_S · Runoff · Republican · lost · 503,438 votes (36.2%) · incumbent · source
- 2026 · State Senate, TX District U_S · Primary · Republican · result not on file · 910,382 votes (42.0%) · incumbent · source
- 2020 · U.S. Senate, TX · General · Republican · won · 5,962,983 votes (53.5%) · incumbent · source
Background
John Cornyn III is an American politician and former judge who is the senior United States senator for Texas, a seat he has held since 2002. He is a member of the Republican Party.
About
John Cornyn has been a U.S. Senator from Texas since December 2002. He earned degrees from Trinity University and St. Mary's University School of Law, plus an LL.M. from the University of Virginia. Earlier he was a Texas district judge in San Antonio, a Texas Supreme Court justice, and Texas Attorney General from 1999 to 2002. Source: Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornyn).
In the news
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- Paxton and Talarico tussle for Texas Senate seat. Trump to campaign virtually instead of in person
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- Texas' red wall facing its biggest threat in decades as Republicans scramble to defend it
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Campaign finance
As of 2026-10-14 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait, public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-11-13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornyn
- Website and social links, Wikidata (CC0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719568
- Official social accounts, congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster, FEC filing https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S2TX00106/
- Name re-derived from FEC filing
- photo_gallery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Cornyn_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
- photo_headshot https://unitedstates.github.io/
- photo_gallery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Cornyn_(12999642174).jpg
Vugol Me corrections
- Status: Lost (primary or election), Lost the 2026 Republican Senate primary to Ken Paxton, who faces James Talarico on Nov 3. Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections,_2026 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas (2026-11-02)
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