Cornyn, groveling on all fours for an endorsement, is "proud" to introduce a bill to rename US Highway 287 after Trump

Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R), who is in a tight reelection contest to keep his Senate seat, introduced legislation on Tuesday to dedicate a highway to President Trump.

“I am proud to introduce legislation to rename US Highway 287 as Interstate 47 in honor of our 47th President,” Cornyn wrote in a social media post. The highway is the second-longest U.S. route, spanning 1,791 miles from Choteau, Mont., to Port Arthur, Texas. GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.) co-sponsored the bill.

There’s no reason to believe the bill will pass, at least not anytime soon. But passage isn’t really the point.

There are just two weeks remaining before Texas’ Republican Senate runoff primary election, and by all appearances, Cornyn is in a very tight race against state Attorney General Ken Paxton. The GOP incumbent would no doubt love (and benefit from) a Trump endorsement, which has not yet arrived.

Indeed, on March 4, the president said he would “soon” issue an endorsement in the Texas race, adding that he expected the other candidate to drop out of the race after failing to receive his support. Intraparty scuttlebutt suggested that Cornyn would get the nod. More than two months later, however, a reporter asked whether he still intended to make an endorsement, and the president replied that he would make a decision “maybe relatively soon.”

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