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John Cornyn

Official portrait of John Cornyn
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. senator from Texas (class 2)
Party
Republican
Born
1952
In Congress
Senate since 2002 · 23 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2021 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
CORNYN, JOHN SEN
Next election
General November 3, 2026 (Wikipedia, checked October 22, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
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Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

RepublicanU.S. Senate · TexasIncumbentLost primary runoff

FEC candidate ID S2TX00106 · Principal campaign committee: TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. Senate · Texas$8,608,609.91Lost primary runoff
2019–2020U.S. Senate · Texas$28,614,523.43Won the general election (53.51%)
Total raised$8,608,609.91
Total spent$12,234,800.20
Cash on hand$496,092.37
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through October 14, 2026, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $3,756,192.44PACs and other committees: $1,479,731.99Party committees: $62,000.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $2,795,036.91Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $515,648.57
  • Individual contributions$3,756,192.4444%
  • PACs and other committees$1,479,731.9917%
  • Party committees$62,000.001%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$2,795,036.9132%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$515,648.576%

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$427,504.135%
  • Contributions over $200$8,788,844.9995%
  • Itemized from inside Texas$5,491,395.6261%
  • Itemized from other states$3,501,240.4339%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: Florida $595,451.14 · New York $570,823.58 · California $431,628.59 · Virginia $299,949.10 · Illinois $184,489.16. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$6M$0 APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $1,585,751.74APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $120,579.48JULY QUARTERLY: raised $803,951.76JULY QUARTERLY: spent $484,053.11OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $910,131.25OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $803,000.24YEAR-END: raised $1,073,621.32YEAR-END: spent $1,226,299.21PRE-PRIMARY: raised $1,124,663.40PRE-PRIMARY: spent $2,013,652.37APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $1,736,370.78APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $1,787,107.11PRE-RUN-OFF: raised $682,938.77PRE-RUN-OFF: spent $1,526,938.96JULY QUARTERLY: raised $686,804.79JULY QUARTERLY: spent $4,222,766.02OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $3,734.65OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $49,884.62PRE-GENERAL: raised $641.45PRE-GENERAL: spent $519.082025-032025-092026-022026-052026-09

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

Voting record, 119th Congress

Roll-call votes while serving915
Voted yea670
Voted nay232
Did not vote13 of 915
Bills and resolutions sponsored139
Sponsored that became law3
Cosponsored323

Recorded Senate roll-call votes from January 9, 2025 through September 30, 2026, the latest vote on record for this member. Each vote links to the official Senate record.

Latest roll-call votes

DateQuestionResultVote
Sep 30, 2026On the Nomination · PN 1129
Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor		Nomination ConfirmedNot voting
Sep 30, 2026On the Cloture Motion · PN 1129
Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor		Cloture Motion Agreed toYea
Sep 30, 2026On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed · HR 9340
A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and for other purposes.		Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedYea
Sep 30, 2026On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed · HR 7008
A bill to amend chapter 131 of title 5 to require certain restrictions on stocks for Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents, and for other purposes.		Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedYea
Sep 29, 2026On the Motion to Discharge · SRES 852
A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.		Motion to Discharge RejectedNay
Sep 29, 2026On the Motion to Proceed · SJRES 197
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to 		Motion to Proceed RejectedNay
Sep 28, 2026On Passage of the Bill · S 4668
A bill to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to promote fair competition among intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes.		Bill PassedYea
Sep 28, 2026On the Amendment · S 4668
To establish certain standards with respect to coaches of varsity sports teams.		Amendment RejectedNay
Sep 28, 2026On the Amendment · S 4668
To increase the limitation on funding for post-eligibility insurance and catastrophic injury for student athletes.		Amendment RejectedNay
Sep 28, 2026On the Amendment · S 4668
To limit price increases for college athletics tickets.		Amendment RejectedNay

Latest bills and resolutions sponsored

  • S. 5677 A bill to establish the Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area to conserve, protect, and promote the economic benefits of the natural, cultural, and recreational resources of the Upper and Middle Texas Gulf Coast as a unit of the National Park System.
    Introduced Sep 30, 2026 · Latest action Sep 30, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • S.Res. 948 A resolution commending and congratulating Texas A&M University for 150 years of service to the State of Texas and the United States.
    Introduced Sep 30, 2026 · Latest action Sep 30, 2026: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5299; text: CR S5273-5274)
  • S. 5543 STRONGER Act
    Introduced Sep 24, 2026 · Latest action Sep 24, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  • S.Res. 843 A resolution expressing support for the designation of the first week of August 2026, as "National Community Health Center Week", encouraging all people of the United States to participate by visiting their local community health center, and celebrating the important partnership between community health centers and the communities they serve.
    Introduced Aug 7, 2026 · Latest action Aug 7, 2026: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4553; text: CR S4568-4569)
  • S. 5348 Depot Data Transparency Act
    Introduced Aug 6, 2026 · Latest action Aug 6, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
  • S. 5349 DEPOTS Act
    Introduced Aug 6, 2026 · Latest action Aug 6, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
  • S. 5334 A bill to designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lubbock, Texas, as the "Lieutenant General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic".
    Introduced Aug 6, 2026 · Latest action Aug 6, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  • S. 5078 Small Tax Case Threshold Modernization Act
    Introduced Jul 22, 2026 · Latest action Jul 22, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
  • S. 5024 Stop PRC Economic Espionage Act of 2026
    Introduced Jul 16, 2026 · Latest action Jul 16, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  • S. 4968 Mystic Alerts Act
    Introduced Jul 14, 2026 · Latest action Jul 14, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Counts of the public record only; TerraCivic does not rate members or judge their votes. Votes: Voteview (Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/). Bills: GovInfo Bill Status (public domain). Retrieved October 23, 2026.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

403 committees reported giving $2,108,277.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting John Sen Cornyn$6,728,914.79
  • Independent expenditures opposing John Sen Cornyn$4,331,709.76
  • Electioneering communications naming John Sen Cornyn$155,998.00
  • Company and union communications to members about John Sen Cornyn$787,553.20

FEC totals for the 2026 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Texas U.S. Senate, 2026 · 39 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
John Sen Cornyn (R)$8,608,609.91$496,092.372026-10-14
James Talarico (D)$128,772,835.42$14,594,231.852026-09-30
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. (R)$19,497,809.76$4,925,105.472026-09-30
Jasmine Crockett (D)$11,096,965.96$0.002026-08-13
Colin Allred (D)$7,630,708.50$401.952026-09-30
Wesley Hunt (R)$2,154,467.93$4,410.922026-09-30
Terry Virts (D)$666,753.76$55,965.142026-09-30
Keith Allen (R)$156,626.79$0.002026-03-31
Theodore E. Brown Jr. (L)$14,257.28$1,288.352026-10-14
Daniel M Sims (L)$11,665.57$200.002026-05-19

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

Recent polls

Polling average: Ken Paxton 46.6% · James Talarico 48.9% (Talarico +2.3%). Averages listed on Wikipedia from 270toWin, Decision Desk HQ, FiftyPlusOne, RealClearPolitics, The Texas Tribune, Silver Bulletin.

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
ActiVoteOctober 17–21, 2026400 (LV)±4.9%Ken Paxton 49% · James Talarico 51%
Emerson CollegeOctober 17–19, 20261,000 (LV)±3.0%Ken Paxton 48% · James Talarico 49% · Ted Brown 3%
46%48%1%Ken Paxton 5%
Beacon Research (D)/ Shaw & Co. Research (R)October 15–19, 20261,398 (LV)±2.5%Ken Paxton 49% · James Talarico 49%
2,011 (RV)±2.0%46%52%Ted Brown 2%
CBS News/YouGovOctober 8–16, 20261,492 (LV)±3.5%Ken Paxton 49% · James Talarico 51%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States Senate election in Texas (retrieved October 22, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC..
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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