Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently admitted in a private setting that the Republican midterm convention in Dallas had a negative impact on his political standing. The Senate nominee shared his perspective during a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., where he spoke to a group of conservative donors and lobbyists, as reported by the New York Times.
“So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good,” Paxton said in an audio recording. This comment came in response to a question about whether he felt like a drag on the ticket, though the context of who the questioner meant remains unclear.
