Wesley Hunt’s Roll-Call Vote Absences Tick Up As He Weighs 2026 Senate Run
Audrey Fahlberg
National Review
September 15, 2025
Houston-area GOP Representative Wesley Hunt’s roll-call vote absences are piling up as he weighs a 2026 primary challenge to Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas), sources tell National Review.
The second-term congressman has missed 281 of 1,505 of eligible roll call votes between January 2023 and September 2025, which averages to 18.7 percent of all roll call votes during his brief tenure in office. That figure is much higher than the median 2 percent lifetime roll call vote figure in Congress, according to GovTrack.
By comparison, Cornyn has missed 176 of 7,781 roll call votes between January 2003 and September 2025, according to GovTrack. That 2.3 percent lifetime score is lower than the median 2.8 percent lifetime roll call vote absence score for most senators.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (the Senate GOP’s campaign arm) are supporting Cornyn’s reelection bid amid a tough primary challenge from the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton.
The NRSC penned a memo to Hunt supporters and donors earlier this month asking them to encourage Hunt to stand down from a 2026 Senate run. “We urge donors and allies to deliver this message directly — tell Wesley Hunt to protect his seat and back Senator John Cornyn,” the memo said. “It’s time for the vanity project that could cost Republicans control of the Senate and dilute our resources to end.”
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