The largest federation of unions in the U.S.: pro-collective-bargaining, pro-$15-minimum-wage, pro-PRO Act, pro-trade-with-labor-standards, pro-immigration with worker protections, pro-Medicare-for-All or robust public option, pro-prescription-drug-price-negotiation. Cornyn is anti-union to the core in his Senate voting record: opposed federal overtime rules, voted against the PRO Act, supported right-to-work expansion. Almost zero overlap. He earns one point over Paxton on free-trade-with-allied-labor-standards (USMCA included labor side agreements the AFL-CIO grudgingly accepted) and on the CHIPS Act manufacturing-investment framework AFL-CIO supported. Talarico hits nearly every AFL-CIO plank: $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, Medicare buy-in, prescription-drug negotiation, AI worker protections, antitrust expansion against corporate landlords.
Sources
- Sen. John Cornyn, official Senate website and 2026 re-election campaign issues page, accessed May 2026 (cornyn.senate.gov; johncornyn.com). (full list)
- Talarico for Texas, official campaign issues pages (taxes, education, healthcare, immigration, social media/AI, freedom-family-faith, public-safety-justice, corruption-democracy, labor-business), accessed May 2026. (full list)
- Cornyn votes on USMCA (January 2020), TPP procedural votes; Senate Finance Committee record on free-trade agreements; Cornyn statements on Trump-era tariffs (2018-2026) including measured opposition to broad agricultural tariffs harming Texas exporters. (full list)