Paxton allies plan $15 million ad campaign

A super PAC backing Texas Senate GOP nominee Ken Paxton released two new ads on Tuesday, as the Republican is locked in a bitter fight against Democrat James Talarico.

The ads from Lone Star Liberty PAC cost $15 million and will air across 18 markets in Texas over the next two weeks, a spokesperson for the group told The Hill.

One ad touts Paxton’s record as the Lone Star State’s attorney general, highlighting a $1.4 billion settlement he reached with Google over privacy concerns and Kellogg’s signing a deal with his office last year to remove artificial dyes from its cereals.

“Ken Paxton. When they come after Texans, he comes after them,” a narrator states. 

Another ad attacks Talarico as being sympathetic to China, as the Texas representative voted against legislation last year establishing criminal penalties for foreign entities purchasing state land.

The measure passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature,........

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