Trump Nemesis Twists the Knife After GOP Guru Switches Sides

Getty Outgoing Texas Senator John Cornyn has twisted the knife after a longtime Republican power broker split with the party in the key battleground state.

Earlier this week, Karl Rove, the veteran GOP strategist who helped steer George W.

Bush to two presidential wins, said he would vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal over Republican Bo French in the race for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency that regulates oil and gas production.

This rankled Trump, who blasted Rove as “so bad” for the party.

Rove’s decision was spurred on by a bigoted post from French, who has a history of what the New York Times called “ unvarnished bigotry .” “The GOP has a growing number of Bo Frenches—and not only in Texas,” Rove subsequently complained in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece .

Enter Texas Senator John Cornyn, who appeared to endorse this message.

Cornyn, who was defeated in a primary in May by President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate, the scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, retweeted the article on X .

The 74-year-old then trumpeted a line from the article, where Rove wrote: “The GOP’s stables need a cleaning.

This is a good place to start.“ It was a small but telling move that sent MAGA figures haring down on the party loyalist.

Many attempted to cast Cornyn as bitter for losing to Trump’s man.

“The sitting ‘Republican’ Senator of Texas, who lost by 27+ points in his primary, is now telling people to vote Democrat.

Spineless,” fumed YouTube talking head Benny Johnson.

He accompanied his post with a screengrab of the results of Cornyn’s unsuccessful Republican primary runoff against Paxton in May, and a grab of Rove’s WSJ piece.

He continued: “Your own voters rejected you.