John Cornyn is still pushing the U.S. India relationship after losing because that was never a PAC-for-votes sideline for him, it is a 22-year institutional project he built. He co-founded the Senate India Caucus with Hillary Clinton in 2004, still co-chairs it with Mark Warner, and treated India as a China-balancing, defense-trade, and energy partner long before H-1B became a Texas primary weapon. He is counting on still being a big lobbyist for India interests after he leaves. Ken Paxton beat him 64–36 in the May 26, 2026 runoff after Trump endorsed Paxton and the race turned, in part, on visas and “Dallas looks like Delhi.” Cornyn stays in office until January 3, 2027. Two weeks after conceding he was back on the record congratulating Narendra Modi on becoming India’s longest-serving elected prime minister and saying the U.S.–India partnership “has never been stronger.” He does not need primary voters anymore, so he is doing what lame-duck committee members do: keep the file he owns. Finance, Foreign Relations, and Intelligence still sit on his desk; Texas energy and defense firms still sell into India; and walking away from a caucus he created would look like surrender to the attack that helped end his career, not a policy change. He is a big reason TX looks like India and he opened the cash register for himself and Abbott to sell out Texas.