Talk:John Cornyn

Well, He is my senator. May I vote for him? - User:United States

Your vote is your decision. While Cornyn is an establishment Republican, he's mostly conservative and is certainly better than MJ Hegar. —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Sunday, 14:32, 25 October 2020 (EDT)

I doubt Trump's victory in Texas had much to do with Cornyn

It previously read: "[Cornyn] also helped Trump win the state of Texas, which may have tilted Democrat, but ensured it to becoming likely Republican." I have reasons to doubt that. Cornyn did support Trump, but it's important to look at the results by county. Trump under-performed Cornyn in the urban/suburban areas like Collin and Tarrant County, while he appeared to do better in some of the heavily Hispanic areas. [1] [2] Cornyn couldn't stop the suburban areas from becoming more Democrat-favoring (which is likely partially due to an influx of liberal Californians). Did Latinos become more Republican this election cycle mainly because of the GOP establishment? Doubtful. It's obviously clear that the Trump-led Republican Party becoming a multi-ethnic coalition of the working/middle class is because of Trump's achievements on social and economic issues not to mention his populism. —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Tuesday, 13:18, 26 January 2021 (EST)

I agree with the overall thrust of Liberaltears comments. I disagree on the analysis to support it however. Cornyn was not much help to anyone down ballot here in my adopted home state of Texas. Both Trump and Cornyn underperformed statewide. The surprising strength of Trump in Rio Grande Valley with Hispanics had zero to do with Cornyn and everything to do with the organizational efforts of grassroots Republicans such as Walter West. (Who Allen West unfairly threw under the bus after the election.) Cornyn was focused on his re-election and did not look out for anyone else, including Trump. There is no evidence to support the claim that Cornyn assisted Trump in Texas. If someone knows of some effort that Cornyn spear-headed to assist Trump then let's hear about it, but as grassroots Texan myself I don't know of any.

One thing that was actually helpful for Trump in Texas was the state party's effort to match the Democrat's voter registration drives, which was funded to the tune of $10,000,000. This was useful and effective.

Also, suburban areas are trending Democrat because of baby boomers and greatest generations types passing on and Millenials and Generation Z growing in size and leaning more left than the older generations that preceded them. The fact is there are just not enough California liberals moving to Texas to influence a statewide election in the country's second-most populous state. The numbers are just not there. Also, after the 2016 Cruz/Robert Francis election, exit poll after exit poll indicated that people that did move from California to Texas, for the most part, voted for Cruz by a 60 to 40 margin. The urban myth that Californians are turning Texas blue is just that a myth. It has more to do with millennials and Gen Z socialist-leaners than it does with California movers. Most Californians who move to Texas did so for economic reasons, such as looking for work, looking to purchase a much larger home for the same amount of money, looking to escape high taxes, and looking for more freedom and less government intervention in their lives. For the most part that is the reason and these are conservative reasons. These are just the types of people we want to keep moving here. Yes, there is a minority that moves here and brings their wrong-headed politics with them, but they are the exception and not the rule.--CharlesShirley (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2021 (EST)