Editorial: We recommend MJ Hegar for US Senate

For 18 years, John Cornyn has represented Texas in the U.S. Senate with dignity, decorum and a legislative work ethic that has made him one of the more productive, and often bipartisan, lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

He’s championed criminal justice reform, stood up for trade with Mexico, stood against President Trump’s child-separation policy and passed major bills tackling sex trafficking and other complex threats to American welfare. Most recently he worked with Texas’ full delegation to send billions in aid following Hurricane Harvey and, when that money got snagged by bureaucracy, he helped to get it flowing.

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“I work with people on a daily basis to pass legislation who I know get up in the morning trying to figure out how they can defeat me in my next election,” he told the editorial board in an hour-long interview last week. “… But you do what you can where you can.”

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar visits with her supporters after the polls close at the offices of The Riveter in Austin on Feb. 2, 2020.

Photo: Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar talks with the media near an early polling site before voting, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Austin, Texas.

Photo: Eric Gay, STF / Associated Press