{"id":2653875,"date":"2026-09-02T21:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-trashes-paxtons-appearance-but-vows-to-campaign-for-him\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:58:09","slug":"trump-trashes-paxtons-appearance-but-vows-to-campaign-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-trashes-paxtons-appearance-but-vows-to-campaign-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump trashes Paxton&#8217;s appearance but vows to campaign for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-trashes-paxtons-appearance-but-vows-to-campaign-for-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2653875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>president Donald Trump criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s physical appearance during a dinner with GOP lawmakers, despite pledging to campaign for him in upcoming elections. trump praised Paxton as one of the best attorneys general in the country, emphasizing his political skills over his appearance. He also announced plans to campaign in 35 tight races across the country within 30 days, including efforts in Texas where Paxton currently trails Democratic candidate James Talarico by less than 3 percentage points. Trump intends to hold \u201ctele town halls\u201d and personally visit key districts to support Republican candidates. The texas race involves significant fundraising, with nearly $100 million raised by both campaigns. Additionally,Talarico has called for the court to unseal Paxton\u2019s depositions due to ethical concerns. Trump\u2019s active campaigning aims to bolster GOP chances in critical Senate and House races ahead of the November elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday offered up a scathing review of Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ken-paxton\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ken-paxton\">Ken Paxton<\/a>\u2019s physical appearance but vowed to campaign for the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\">Texas<\/a> Senate nominee and a host of other Republican contenders in tight races ahead of November. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paxton, who is running against Democratic nominee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-talarico\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-talarico\">James Talarico<\/a>, is one of multiple GOP candidates embroiled in razor-thin races, as Republicans battle to hold slim majorities in both chambers of Congress this fall. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4711137\/trump-ken-paxton-campaign-texas-senate\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump trashes Paxton\u2019s appearance after vowing to campaign for him in Texas<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4711078\/graham-platner-labor-day-rally-speaker\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Graham Platner dropped from Labor Day rally speaker schedule<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4710205\/trump-alaska-trip-preview-dan-sullivan\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump previews trip to Alaska to campaign for Dan Sullivan, ripping into the other Dan Sullivan<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a Rose Garden dinner with swing-district GOP lawmakers, Trump said he would campaign for Paxton, among dozens of others, in the final 30-day sweep leading up to the Nov. 3 elections. The president ridiculed Paxton\u2019s style, telling attendees \u201cyou might not like the way he looks,\u201d but handed him a pass, saying voters should still back him because of his political prowess as \u201cthe best attorney general in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he dresses, and I say this \u2014 it\u2019s so insulting to him, but I might as well say it. You might not like the way he looks. You might not love his look. You might not love his television interviews, but he was the best attorney general in the country \u2014 perhaps he was one of the best in the entire country, and that speaks a lot louder than the suit he\u2019s wearing that doesn\u2019t look so great, or than anything,\u201d Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/event\/white-house-event\/pres-trump-hosts-rose-garden-dinner\/446765\">said<\/a> during the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverybody admits it. He was a great attorney general in Texas,\u201d the president said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to go to Texas and work for Ken Paxton, who\u2019s a great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump revealed during the Rose Garden remarks that he plans to target 35 races across the country in roughly 30 days. He asked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to give him a list of candidates in tight races and teased a series of \u201ctele town halls,\u201d saying he could do up to 10 in one night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Texas, Paxton is currently trailing Talarico by under 3 percentage points, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.270towin.com\/2026-senate-polls\/texas\">according to<\/a> the 270toWin average of polling data. In general, polling paints an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/texas-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\">uneven picture<\/a> of the race, with some surveys showing Talarico winning, others having the race tied, and one showing Paxton winning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s all about 35 races,\u201d the president said. \u201cI\u2019m going to go to every one of those 35 places, and we\u2019re going to see if we can get everyone elected. You know, I think it\u2019s work. Then we\u2019re going to do the tele town halls. They\u2019re fantastic. They work amazingly.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to really work hard. So we\u2019re going to take that little, that final 30 days. We don\u2019t want to go too much before that because people forget. But we\u2019re going to take that final 30 days, Mr. Speaker,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cSo I\u2019m relying on you guys to give me some names where I say is either tied, where you\u2019re winning by a little bit, or you\u2019re losing by a little bit. In some cases, you can be losing by a lot, and we\u2019ll bring you over the line. But mostly, it\u2019s if you\u2019re close, and we\u2019ll get \u2014 I think we\u2019ll get all those people elected.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4702370\/james-talarico-asks-court-unseal-ken-paxton-depositions-ethical-questions\/\"><strong>JAMES TALARICO ASKS COURT TO UNSEAL KEN PAXTON DEPOSITIONS ALLEGING THEY RAISE \u2018ETHICAL QUESTIONS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Texas specifically, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4708527\/thune-trump-fundraising-paxton-texas-senate-race\/\">has warned<\/a> the party will need Trump\u2019s resources to produce a win, pointing to the amount of money that has been poured into the race. In the fundraising department alone, Paxton and Talarico\u2019s campaigns have raised nearly a combined <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/text\/236623\/\">$100 million<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause Texas is such an expensive state, we\u2019re going to need the president and his team to be engaged there and to be putting resources into that race,\u201d Thune said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump mocks Paxton\u2019s looks but vows to support him in Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2653876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26135659840518.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4087,50410,18466,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2653875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-campaign","tag-controversy-2","tag-paxton","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26135659840518.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653880,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653875\/revisions\/2653880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}