CPAC calls Cornyn’s bluff with offer to find speaking slot for Texas senator

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are gearing up for CPAC in Texas. Unlike Sen John Cornyn, who is claiming a scheduling conflict to avoid what would likely be a tricky appearance in front of the MAGA movement. We also have exclusive polling showing how gas prices are hitting voters …

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is very sorry and has sent his apologies via a public statement to the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference. 

Yes, it may be that it is being held in his home state of Texas, but important votes in the Senate mean he will be stuck in Washington, D.C., and unable to attend.

Never mind that the traditionally Trumpy crowd at CPAC may take issue with his record and may actually prefer his election-denying rival for the Texas Senate nomination, Ken Paxton, who just happens to have landed one of the plum