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What happened
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton stated in a leaked audio recording from a September fundraiser that he does not control his campaign's message. Outlets reported that Paxton expressed frustration about outside forces in Washington managing his campaign.
Reports across the political spectrum agree that leaked audio from a private fundraiser features Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expressing a lack of control over his Senate campaign's direction.
Left-leaning outlets like The Guardian, The New Republic, Politico, and Rolling Stone frame the situation around Paxton's campaign struggles, describing it as flailing or scandal-hit. Right-leaning outlets such as the Washington Examiner, New York Post, and Daily Mail focus on Paxton blaming Washington leadership and Republican outsiders for the campaign's performance, with the Daily Mail characterizing it as a midterm nightmare.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent civil investigative demands to the company to collect evidence around potential violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, according to his office.
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Source context: ‘I don’t control message or what we’re doing,’ scandal- hit state attorney general reportedly says at private eventKen Paxton, the Texas attorney general chosen by Donald Trump to run as the Republican candidate for a Senate seat, admitted in private that his campaign was being c…
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In a leaked audio recording, Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton lamented that he isn’t in control of his own campaign. At a fundraiser in September, Paxton spoke candidly about his flailing campaign, according to the recording shared with Politico and published Monday. “I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over…
‘I don’t control message or what we’re doing,’ scandal- hit state attorney general reportedly says at private eventKen Paxton, the Texas attorney general chosen by Donald Trump to run as the Republican candidate for a Senate seat, admitted in private that his campaign was being controlled by outside forces in Washington DC.Paxton, who is locked in a…
“I don’t control message or what we’re doing,” Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton said during a small fundraising event in September.
The Republican Senate candidate complained that he doesn't "have the ability to change anything," within his campaign
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent civil investigative demands to the company to collect evidence around potential violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, according to his office.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is blaming Republican leadership in Washington for controlling his Senate campaign, marking at least the second time he has dragged the GOP for how his campaign is performing. Paxton acknowledged in leaked audio obtained by Politico that his campaign is being run by outsiders during a luncheon last month hosted…
“I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and, like, what issues are going to matter because it’s all coming — you know — from DC.''
The Texas Republican made the confession to a room of DC lobbyists at a private fundraising lunch.
