John Cornyn

President Donald Trump said Friday that he doesn’t blame Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn for holding up the nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

He predicted that Cornyn was probably doing it because Trump endorsed his primary GOP Senate opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton.

“This is being done by a senator, and I don’t really blame him to be honest with you,” the president said during a cabinet meeting. I endorsed his opponent. The man that lost, the man that I didn’t endorse, has become very angry, and that’s OK.”

Trump said he would do the same thing if he were in Cornyn’s shoes.

Cornyn and North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis have been opposed to Blanche being the Attorney General.

Trump said he had no problem pulling Blanche’s nomination from being U.S. Attorney General until Tillis and Cornyn were out of office.

Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy warned that decision could backfire.

A reporter asked Kennedy if it would be “risky” to delay Branche’s nomination until the midterms were over.

“Well, duh,” Kennedy answered, according to The Hill newspaper. “Yeah. This place could be very different.”

If the Democrats take the Senate back, the likelihood of Blanche being confirmed could be at risk.