Long's 2012 U.S. Senate candidacy was endorsed by National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Senator John Cornyn, former Governor George Pataki, former Representative Rick Lazio, Representative Bob Turner, Grover Norquist, the American Conservative Union PAC, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, The New York Post, former Conservative gubernatorial candidate Herbert London, the National Organization for Marriage, the Susan B. Anthony List, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms PAC, and several current and former Republican candidates and elected officials. Long also carried the support of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum political action committee. Not all of these endorsements returned for the 2016 election.