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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."...

Some of President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters are turning on a powerful Republican governor, with one flipping a common Trump attack against him.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is bleeding support from MAGA voters furious over his school voucher crusade and his embrace of massive data centers, New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg reported Friday.

Lynn Davenport, a lifelong conservative who attended Trump's rally in Washington on January 6, 2021, though she left before the Capitol riot, told Goldberg that Abbott is a "globalist, which to me is scarier than a communist, a socialist or a Marxist."...

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."...

Critics erupted online Wednesday after an older MAGA rallygoer yanked a protester's hair during President Donald Trump's San Antonio rally.

Trump came to San Antonio to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton and Carlos De La Cruz, who's running to represent Texas' 35th Congressional District. He was speaking at Freeman Coliseum when multiple protesters heckled him and drew a sharp reaction from the crowd.

After interrupting Trump's speech, one of the protesters appeared to head for the exit, but an older Trump supporter in a red MAGA hat ran up behind him, grabbed him, and started pulling at his hair, shocking even the people around him. The scene was captured by C-SPAN's coverage of the event and circulated online....

President Donald Trump demanded payback against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on his way to Texas, branding the congressman he pardoned "disloyal and ungrateful."

"To the people of Texas, I am headed your way," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Wednesday promoting Cuellar's Republican challenger, Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina. "We call that payback for a disloyal and ungrateful person, a person whose life has been saved only to go back into the clutches of the people that tried so hard to destroy him."

Trump pardoned Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, in December. The couple had been accused of taking roughly $600,000 in bribes from an oil and gas company tied to Azerbaijan's government and a Mexico City bank, Texas Public Radio reported....

A new GOP ad making the case for a scandal-plagued Texas Senate candidate drew swift mockery online because of who was delivering the pitch.

On Saturday, a Republican super PAC put out an ad featuring state Sen. Angela Paxton, the estranged wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running against James Talarico for a Senate seat. The ad was paid for by an affiliate of Senate Majority Leader John Thune's Senate Leadership Fund, the Washington Sun reported.

"People have asked my thoughts about this election, and turns out, I have some," Angela Paxton says in the 30-second spot. "Let's talk about the elephant in the room."...