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Victor Davis Hanson: Paxton Has Problems—but Texas Democrats Have Bigger Ones

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: Well, let’s turn to Trump. We know that he’s planning on barnstorming the country for some of the candidates and such. So I was wondering what you made of Ken Paxton, who said that that convention that he had in Dallas, Texas, dragged down his numbers. It’s dragged everybody’s numbers down. 

Ken Paxton was his man. Who? I mean, they caught him on a mic—or he didn’t say it formally. 

Victor Davis Hanson: He denied that. 

But he shouldn’t have told anybody that. Look, John Cornyn would have won that election, and he was a RINO. And he’s very embittered, like Tom Tillis is in [North] Carolina. And he voted with Trump about 85% of the time, right? 

But on the key issues, like the SAVE Act and those, he wasn’t with Trump, so Trump got mad. Paxton had a, what’s the word, colorful record, personal and professional. And he was not, as Trump said, a charismatic guy. But Trump endorsed him with the idea that Texas is not going to vote for a vegetarian when they’re famous for beef. 

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They’re not going to vote for a green nut when they’re famous for oil. They’re not going to vote for “Jesus is nonbinary” when it’s an evangelical state. So I think that Paxton will win, but he’s a very weak candidate, I’ll be candid with you. And he doesn’t come across well, and they haven’t been campaigning. 

[James] Talarico is slimy and unctuous and smooth. He’s oily, and he’s taking his, “I never said that. That was a moment of exuberance.” Then every time you catch him in his real self, somebody ambushes him and says, “Who’s your favorite drag dancer, trans drag dancer?” 

And he’s like, “Uh-oh, I just gave a name as if I know all of them.” 

So he’s running as something he’s not. And when he gets elected, if he were to do that, he would go back to his socialist crazy roots, just like [Abdul] El-Sayed and everybody else. 

Sami Winc: Yeah, as the reverend at his church got caught on a........

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