President Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to run for reelection as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case. Trump used a social media post Sunday to blast Cuellar for “Such a lack of LOYALTY.” That seems to suggest the Republican president might have expected the clemency to bolster the GOP’s narrow House majority heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Cuellar said in a television interview that he was a conservative Democrat willing to work with the administration “to see where we can find common ground.”
