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John Cornyn

Republican · U.S. Senator, Texas · Texas · Spectrum score +48

Senate · 2026 ballot ·

John Cornyn is U.S. Senator, Texas in Texas. Political positions and ideology score +48 (Right). Cornyn is the lame duck with a war chest.

College: Trinity University, B.A. 1973 · St. Mary's University School of Law, J.D. 1977 · University of Virginia, LL.M. 1995
Spouse: Sandy Cornyn (m. 1979)
Children: Two
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Texas · 2002–
Attorney General · Texas · 1999–2002
Justice · Supreme Court of Texas · 1991–1997

Net worth: $5.0M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $1.0M
2026 raised: $12.0M
Years in office: 27

Where John stands on the spectrum

John Cornyn scores +48 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +48 · Right · economic +49 · social +46 · authoritarian +26

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Cornyn is the lame duck with a war chest. The file is a Texas institutionalist who lost his own primary, energy-and-lawyer money that could not buy the base, and a Senate that still has him until January. The receipts outlived the coalition.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$5.0M

+400% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$1.0M

Now$5.0M

AG to Senate. Texas lawyer money. He lost the 2026 nomination and is still on the payroll until January.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $12.0M
Cash on hand: $2.0M

Top industries

Energy
Lawyers
Health
Leadership PACs

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Texas institutionalist. Energy-state funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$250K–$1.0M
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$75K–$300K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$250K–$1.0M
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$75K–$300K

Sum of ranges $325K–$1.3M · midpoint $813K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

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Live wire

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Conflicts

A whip-era conservative dumped by a party he helped build.
Energy receipts vs a primary that called him a RINO anyway.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +49
Social: +46
Authoritarian: +26
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+54
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+48
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+52
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+44
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+46
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+56
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+46
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+58
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.49

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE
2026 primary
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.