Why 🐵 CampaignFinanceAndEthics picked: As Trump weighed endorsing Ken Paxton this spring, he was told that damaging revelations were likely to surface, according to people familiar with the conversations. Months later, the decision to endorse the Texas attorney general is looking like Trump’s biggest gamble of the midterms.

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