What Are These Weird, Off-Putting Pro-Paxton Ads Trying to Accomplish?

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. If you watched sports on television this weekend—regardless of where in the country you may live—you probably saw ads touting Ken Paxton, the man fighting to maintain the GOP’s generations-long grip on statewide elections in Texas as he’s locked in a tight race against Democrat James Talarico. Perhaps you saw an ad from the Senate Leadership Fund–affiliated Texas PAC, which has spent more than $130 million on the campaign, starring state Senator Angela Paxton—hey, that’s a familiar last name!—in which she expresses her support for the entire GOP ticket running in November, no need to get specific about any one candidate or race. Or maybe you caught…

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