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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton started chanting "U-S-A" on stage during a rally Wednesday night in a panicked attempt to drown out a person in the crowd trying to confront him over why he gave an Epstein-style sweetheart plea deal to an admitted child molester.

Paxton, President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued pick in the heated Texas Senate race, has been facing scrutiny in the fallout over a plea deal for Adam Dean Hoffman, a 49-year-old attorney accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy for years, according to The Texas Tribune. Hoffman surrendered his law license, and in the deal, he was let out of jail in just days without having to register as a sex offender.

At the event at White Oak Music Hall in north Houston, he faced public questions over the decision....

Ken Paxton, President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued pick in the Texas Senate race, boasted that more than 700 people turned out for his first and only campaign rally — but got fact-checked on the real number of attendees.

The Texas attorney general hosted a rally at the University Draft House in McAllen, Texas, which had a "modest audience, topping off at 100 attendees," myRGV.com reported.

In a post on X, Paxton's campaign had claimed 763 people were at the event....

A new poll revealed that President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued pick in the Texas Senate race, Attorney General Ken Paxton, might not win his critical election, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.

A New York Times/Siena poll of 656 likely Texas voters found that Paxton is tied at 47 percent in the midterm face-off against Democratic candidate James Talarico — and the "toss-up survey is ringing alarm bells for the president’s controversial candidate," according to The Beast.

Trump backed Paxton and turned on longtime Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary....

An analyst on Monday said that Republicans could be up against a bigger fight to hold onto GOP votes in Texas in the run-off against Trump-challenger Ken Paxton and longtime Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).

Scott MacFarlane, chief Washington correspondent and anchor for MeidasTouch, told CNN anchor Boris Sanchez that Cornyn has been a longtime Republican leader and that even if Paxton is the new nominee, President Donald Trump's demand to add more Republican seats in Congress could backfire — and might not work in favor of the GOP.

"I've covered John Cornyn since early in his first term here in Washington — it is disorienting to hear him called 'disloyal to his party,'" MacFarlane said....

At the 2013 Texas Tribune Festival, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst said the key to legislative victory was keeping people out of the Capitol building.

Texas politicians were due to give formal approval on Wednesday to a controversial abortion bill, two weeks after a marathon filibuster frustrated its progress and prompted protests against the proposals.