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Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton told Breitbart News Saturday that he is seeing growing enthusiasm among Republican voters as his campaign works to increase turnout, close a fundraising gap with Democrat James Talarico, and draw attention to Talarico’s positions.
“I started June 1 with basically $0,” Paxton said, while Talarico “had just raised 30 million,” which Paxton said came largely from California and New York. Paxton said his campaign had spent the summer raising money after beginning June with essentially no funds.
Asked what Texans could expect if Talarico were elected to the Senate and joined the Democratic coalition in Washington, Paxton told listeners to “close their eyes” and imagine Talarico representing the state before considering his positions. “Now open your eyes up,” Paxton said. “That’s a nightmare.” He argued that it would send “a bad, bad signal for the entire country” if Texas elected someone he described as advancing a “woke leftist agenda” aligned with Democratic Socialists.
Paxton said he has been “doing a lot of work reaching out to people” and explaining his positions to them. He acknowledged that Republicans do not always get their preferred candidate but said he ultimately moves on and supports the Republican nominee. “Everybody I vote for doesn’t win, but eventually I move on and vote for the Republican,” Paxton said.
Jaye, who said he previously worked in Texas politics for Rep. Brian Babin, another Paxton endorser, asked why Democrats repeatedly target Texas and argue that the state could turn blue. Paxton said Texas is on Democrats’ “top wish list” because of its electoral importance. “If they take Texas, we’re not going to elect another president from the Republican Party,” he argued, adding that Republicans would also struggle to maintain a congressional majority.
The conversation then turned to the SAVE America Act, which Jaye described as a top legislative priority for President Donald Trump. During the runoff, Paxton had said he would consider dropping out of the Senate race if the Senate acted to pass the legislation, which Jaye characterized as an effort to spur establishment senators to act. Asked what needs to change in the Senate, Paxton said the issue comes down to lawmakers having the courage to do what they believe is right. “A lot of them, they know what the right thing to do is,” he said.
Paxton argued that “We have to protect the elections” and said “Elections are not safe right now.” He said that in “almost any of the Democratic states,” people do not have to show photo identification, officials “don’t have to check” voter rolls to make sure noncitizens are not voting, and mail-in ballots can be sent out without what he considers adequate ballot security. “That has to be fixed, or we are going to lose this country,” Paxton said.
Paxton said he believes lawmakers understand the issue but argued that acting on it requires political courage. “It’s just a matter of having the courage to do it,” he said. Paxton said there were “a few Republican senators” who would not vote for the measure and expressed interest in hearing their reasoning.
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