Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Republican Ken Paxton admits forces in DC control his Texas Senate campaign

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‘I don’t control message or what we’re doing,’ scandal- hit state attorney general reportedly says at private eventKen Paxton, the Texas attorney general <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/republican-tillis-trump-paxton" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">chosen by Donald Trump </a>to run as the Republican candidate for a Senate seat, admitted in private that his campaign was being controlled by outside forces in Washington DC.Paxton, who is locked in a competitive race with the progressive <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/james-talarico-ken-paxton-epstein-survivors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Democrat James Talarico</a>, told people at a fundraising event in September that he had never felt such little control over his campaign because of outside influence. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/ken-paxton-texas-senate-campaign-control" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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