Donald Trump is heading into what one senior Republican predicts will be 'the most miserable two years of his life,' after outgoing GOP senator John Cornyn used a blunt New York Times interview to warn the president that his leadership is collapsing from within his own party ahead of November's midterm elections in the United States.
The stark assessment came after Cornyn, a long-serving Texas conservative, lost his Republican primary to Ken Paxton, a scandal-hit state attorney general backed aggressively by Donald Trump. Trump's endorsement was widely viewed as decisive in Cornyn's defeat, a humiliation for a former Senate whip once counted among the party's institutional heavyweights. That intervention has now boomeranged into a public feud, laying bare the bitterness and fragmentation inside the GOP as it moves into the second half of Trump's second term.
