John Cornyn had a chance to go out with a bang like fellow Republican Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who also had their reelection campaigns sandbagged by the president.

Instead, Texas' senior GOP senator appears determined to leave Washington with a whimper.

Sign up Cornyn suffered the political humiliation of his career last month, losing the Republican primary to Ken Paxton after spending years bending himself into increasingly awkward shapes to accommodate Trump's demands.