Defeated GOP Senator Is Really Going Through It Right Now

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn appeared to be grieving his loss in the Texas Senate runoff race with quotes from the Bible and Winston Churchill.

Cornyn lost to Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s runoff race by a 28-point margin. In several X posts, the senator insinuated that he “fought the good fight” and that the end of his term is “not the end.”

“‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning,’ Winston Churchill,” Cornyn wrote in a statement on X Friday.

Cornyn also cited an old fable about a frog carrying a scorpion across a river, though the scorpion doomed both of them after stinging the frog.

“An old, but apt fable: A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river,” Cornyn wrote. “The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: ‘I am sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s my character.’”

The Texas Republican also cited 2 Timothy 4:7, stating, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”