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{"id":24130,"date":"2026-06-12T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-tells-mike-lee-to-lay-off-john-thune\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:47:18","slug":"cornyn-tells-mike-lee-to-lay-off-john-thune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-tells-mike-lee-to-lay-off-john-thune\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn tells Mike Lee to lay off John Thune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. John Cornyn isn\u2019t a card-carrying member of the Senate GOP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/13\/republican-trump-congress-defections-00780479\" target=\"_blank\"><u>growing YOLO caucus<\/u><\/a>. But with less than seven months left in office after losing his primary, the Texas Republican appears to be feeling newly free to speak his mind.<\/p>\n<p>The latest clap-back came Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning, when Cornyn <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/2065209313434460300?s=20\" target=\"_blank\"><u>called a conservative influencer<\/u><\/a> a \u201cgrifter\u201d and told Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on social media to stop publicly blaming fellow Republicans \u2014 including Senate Majority Leader John Thune \u2014 for the fact that the GOP elections bill doesn\u2019t have support to pass inside the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have the votes\u201d for the SAVE America Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/2065313050970771604?s=20\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Cornyn posted on X. <\/u><\/a>\u201c@LeaderJohnThune can\u2019t change that. It is math.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was directing his comments at Lee, who had<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/2065293607259746565\" target=\"_blank\"><u> just penned<\/u><\/a> a post telling Thune, \u201clet\u2019s do this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn continued, \u201cTry focusing on Democrats instead of Republicans. Republican on Republican attacks are hurting our chances to win the majority in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee responded <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/2065321220854382992\" target=\"_blank\"><u>to ask<\/u><\/a>, \u201con what planet is this an attack on Republicans?\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/2065323147646390308\" target=\"_blank\"><u>appeared to suggest<\/u><\/a> a staffer was tweeting on Cornyn\u2019s behalf: \u201cOnce my friend John Cornyn realizes that you\u2019re saying this in his name\u2014whoever you are\u2014I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll be happy with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, however, is known for posting himself on his social media accounts in a chamber where many Senate accounts are run solely by staff. And he\u2019s been making it clear all week that he will push back on Trump and his party when he thinks it\u2019s needed.<\/p>\n<p>In multiple conversations with reporters in the Capitol, Cornyn said that Republicans need to \u201cstop the circular firing squad.\u201d And he added that he won\u2019t intentionally be \u201ca thorn in [Trump\u2019s] side,\u201d but he\u2019s also \u201cnot going to go out of my way to try to appease him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want him to succeed, I want the Republican Party to succeed, I want the country to succeed,\u201d Cornyn said this week. \u201cBut on a case-by-case basis, when I think there\u2019s been overreach or just a bad idea, I\u2019m not going to hesitate to weigh in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four-term senator\u2019s comments come after he lost his primary last month to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who Trump endorsed in the final days of the runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/11\/us\/john-cornyn-interview-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\"><u>in an interview with The New York Times<\/u><\/a> that he was not a \u201cwounded bear\u201d but that he believed Trump\u2019s insistence on \u201cslavish adherence&#8221; was going to backfire for Republicans in the midterms and result in \u201cthe most miserable two years of his life\u201d if Democrats flip the House or Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is going to be a pretty bumpy ride for the next seven months,\u201d Cornyn said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Cornyn isn\u2019t a card-carrying member of the Senate GOP\u2019s growing YOLO caucus. But with less than seven months left in office after losing his primary, the Texas Republican appears to be feeling newly free to speak his mind. The latest clap-back came Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning, when Cornyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}