All posts tagged "Ken Paxton"

A Justice Department veteran says a MAGA influencer's viral smear against a Senate candidate should cost him dearly in court.

Lisa Graves, a former Justice Department official, told "Legal AF" host Michael Popok during Monday's live show that Ohio's Lindner Center of HOPE should take right-wing influencer Nick Sortor to court after he claimed Texas state Rep. James Talarico had been treated at the psychiatric facility. "I personally hope the hospital sues him into bankruptcy because the damage to its business of making this claim is probably significant," Graves said.

Talarico, the Democrat running against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, was off the campaign trail for about a week with the flu. Sortor then released audio of what he presented as a phone call with a Lindner representative, suggesting Talarico had been a patient....

Barbara Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, has given money to a super PAC supporting Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, Houston Public Media reported.

The amount is small, but it may say something about where some Republicans stand.

Lone Star Rising PAC’s third-quarter filing with the FEC lists a $2,500 contribution from the younger Bush, dated September 23. The Bush family didn’t respond to a request for comment....

A former Republican pollster who sits down with Trump voters says one MAGA Senate hopeful has a problem with his own base.

Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell said on Tuesday's episode of "The Next Level" that disaffected Trump voters in her Texas focus groups view GOP Senate hopeful Ken Paxton as a "huge scumbag," while Democrat James Talarico comes across as a "really nice guy."

"I've done a bunch of focus groups in Texas with sort of the disaffected Trump voters," Longwell said. "And you know what they think? They think Ken Paxton is a huge scumbag and that James Talarico has said some weird things but seems like a really nice guy."...

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico turned a recent attack line from Republican Ken Paxton back on him over the weekend. In a new post, Talarico mocked Paxton for refusing to debate him.

“I challenged Ken Paxton to a debate 85 days ago, but no one has heard from him,” Talarico wrote on X. “People are getting worried.”

“I’ve received credible reports he’s suffering from a rare condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice,” he added. “@KenPaxtonTX: I am asking for proof of ability to debate.”...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to turn his Senate opponent's brief disappearance into a scandal, but critics quickly flipped it back on him.

Paxton, the Republican Senate nominee in Texas, questioned on Saturday whether Democrat James Talarico really had the flu during his nearly two-week absence, prompting a wave of critics to call him a coward for ducking debates and to point to his own personal baggage.

"James Talarico claims he was missing for 13 days because he had the 'flu,'" Paxton wrote on X. "Who actually believes that? He was only seen for the first time in 13 days during a staged 15-minute appearance at a music festival. He owes Texans answers."...

The leaks dribbling out daily from Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton's campaign aren't an accident, political strategist Chai Komanduri speculated to MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday's edition of "The Beat."

Rather, he said, they're part of a concerted effort to sink his campaign — for a very roundabout reason.

"I know this is not the Joe Rogan Show, so I don't want to do conspiracy theory, but we seem to get a lot of leaked audio about Ken Paxton," said Komanduri. And as to why, "I kind of have a theory that part of it has to do with the fact that Texas is an extremely expensive state."...