Flailing MAGA candidate caught in crowd-size lie: 'A very Low-T move'
A scandal-plagued MAGA candidate fighting to preserve his party's majority in the Senate got caught lying about one of President Donald Trump's favorite topics: crowd size.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — whose political foibles include alleged election law violations and a London jaunt on the Fourth of July with a woman who is not his wife — has been caught in a boast that hundreds of people attended a campaign event, local and national reports show.
"Paxton...held his rally at the University Draft House Tuesday evening," myRGV reported. "It drew a modest audience, topping off at 100 attendees. However, his campaign team claimed 700 people attended."
As proof, the local outlet noted the venue can hold a maximum capacity of 200 people. It described the guests as "predominantly older, with a few youthful exceptions."
Trump — recently caught in inflating his own crowd sizes — endorsed Paxton to replace Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in May.
Texas Democrats were quick to jump on the report and shower Paxton in ridicule, the Daily Beast reported Saturday.
“Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America and a pathological liar, and apparently that extends to describing his crowd size, too,” Texas Democratic Party spokesperson Ryan Martin said in a statement to the Daily Beast. “A very Low-T move by the Paxton campaign.”
Online commenters were no less blunt.
"Did you miss a decimal point?" X user Laurence Hayden replied to Paxton's video post. "There’s about 50 people there you disingenuous clown."
"How many times did you double count the same person?" asked X user Jessica Renae.
"MAGA has always been bad at counting," quipped Michael Farley.
JT Ennis, a spokesperson for Paxton's Democratic challenger Rep. James Talarico, shared the story with his 2,815 followers with the caption "lying about crowd size."