President Trump on Wednesday said he has “no regrets at all” about his endorsement of Ken Paxton after the media’s attempts to ruin his campaign for U.S. Senate through various leaks from closed-door meetings.
Trump is also scheduled to hold a rally for Paxton in San Antonio, Texas, tonight.
The Texas Senate race has been rocked by a number of leaked audio recordings of Paxton during private events with GOP operatives, donors, and lobbyists, in which he candidly discusses his campaign. The knives are out for Paxton, but Trump isn’t turning his back on the star Texas Senate Nominee.
In one audio tape, Paxton said during a meeting with conservative donors and lobbyists late last month that the RNC midterm convention hurt him in the polls and that “everybody’s numbers dropped,” following the convention. An attendee recorded the comments at a private fundraiser in Washington and leaked the recording to the New York Times.
Still, Trump responded last Wednesday to the recording by brushing off the comments, defending the convention, and noting the massive viewership it generated.
“I haven’t heard that, but I can tell you that the convention was amazing. As you probably know, we had 107 million views,” he said. “The NFL had 25 million views, so we had four times what the NFL did.”
He went on to campaign for Paxton in Denton, Texas, the next day, unfazed by the recording.
This week, two more audio tapes emerged. In one, obtained by Politico, Paxton is heard telling donors that he has “little control” over his messaging and “it’s all coming from DC,” creating a challenge with getting his message out to regular Texas voters. The snippet appears to show Paxton expressing his frustrations with the national GOP and the current Senate Republican leadership trying to control him.
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In another tape, obtained by Axios, Paxton simply admits that his biggest obstacles in the race are the war in Iran and high gas prices, and explains his plan to alleviate voters’ concerns on the campaign trail. “I’m just trying to figure out ways that I can help people,” including “proposing legislation,” he said, while acknowledging that he can’t stop the war.
This is clearly a targeted campaign by the left-wing media and anonymous leakers to infiltrate and stop Paxton and drive a wedge between him and Trump. In the recordings, which are made out to be far more damning than they truly are, Paxton does not attack Trump or say anything negative about the Republican Party.
When asked if he has any regrets about endorsing Paxton in the primary race against RINO John Cornyn, Trump doubled down, praising the Texas Republican and saying, “not at all.”
“No, no, no, not at all,” Trump said, describing him as “the best, or certainly one of the few best, but the best attorney general in the whole country,” who “will be a great Senator.”
“I would have no regrets at all,” Trump added.
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