Paxton says Trump would have lost Texas if he hadn't blocked 2.5 million ballots applications

[deminks]

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-ag-says-trump-wouldve-lost-state-if-it-hadnt-blocked-mail-ballots-applications-being-1597909



Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump would have lost in Texas in the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to all registered voters.

Harris County, home to the city of Houston, wanted to mail out applications for mail-in ballots to its approximately 2.4 million registered voters due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the conservative Texas Supreme Court blocked the county from doing so after it faced litigation from Paxton's office.

"If we'd lost Harris County—Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million, those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them," Paxton told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon during the latter's War Room podcast on Friday.

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Beto, too.

[gab13by13]

1. The Magat strategy isn't to win,

it's to cheat.

[Grins]

32. Story is dated June 2021!

Nice for the refresher, but it’s almost two years old.

[PatSeg]

36. And they know that they can't win

if they don't cheat.

[FakeNoose]

2. So the voter suppression is all Chump's fault, is that what he's saying?

Poor misunderstood Ken Paxton, he made no attempt to suppress the votes himself.
He was just trying to do his job. But that big bully Donald Chump wouldn't let him.

[enough]

3. Not hiding it anymore

[Kennah]

4. Dude might wanna have a signed deal before confessing

[TeamProg]

14. +1

[spanone]

5. Cue Jack Smith.

[shelshaw]

7. Yep, sounds like a confession to me

[malaise]

21. THI@

Nice confession

[Quanto Magnus]

6. They're so confident that there's no consequences

they will keep doing it and bragging about it.

[Sanity Claws]

8. Why is he saying this now?

A warning to other Republicans about all the dirt he can bring to light, if they remove him?

Apparently he is willing to take others down with him, if he is going down.

[Martin Eden]

11. He's probably trying to gain support from Rethug state senators

Who will decide conviction or acquittal in the senate impeachment trial.

He's extolling his value to the Texas GOP, preventing the state's electoral votes going to Biden.

[ZonkerHarris]

19. exactly. "Look how corrupt I am for YOU!"

[Sanity Claws]

28. So his value to the Republicans is his willingness and ability to be corrupt

and anti-democratic.

I wouldn't want that to be on my tombstone. What a way to be remembered!

[Martin Eden]

31. As to what's on his tombstone...

I predict urine.

[malaise]

22. You ain't see anything yet

Will be like watching well armed piranhas feeding soon and very soon 😀😀😀😀😀

[Igel]

39. He's not.

He's saying it the Friday before 6/5/21. Old story.

Pardon the tense mismatch, but that's what will have been happened when the past is made present.

[kimbutgar]

9. And they just passed the takeover of Houston's elections!!!

Wow the republicans are they truly evil.

[DBoon]

35. It should be the Feds that take over Texas elections

In a just world, a state attorney general admitting that he suppressed 2.5 million votes would be proof the whole election process is invalid

[Sogo]

10. So, there you have it....

Proof of 2020 election fraud….

[Martin Eden]

12. Court approved voter suppression

Red states are employing a wide range of laws and strategies to steal the next election.

[TimeToGo]

13. So . . .

Well, that's interesting

[randr]

15. Unfortunately that is how the system works

Or Not!
The citizens of Harris County should file a suit if possible.

[Initech]

16. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this didn't happen.

He's just trying to appeal to the MAGA conspiracy theorist base.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. Actually it did. I do not know if Paxton was the ultimate

enforcer but since normal Texas election rules require voters to request mail in ballots (and only over 65, physically unable to vote in person, or out of area for voting period are eligible), special exemption was required to send request forms to every registered voter in Texas. This was refused; I thought it was Abbott who was behind it but I guess not.

There were some concessions during the COVID year.
Texas rules normally only allow a physical drop off of the mail in ballot on Election Day at one location in a county. For COVID, voters were allowed to drop their ballots at the designated location from the day they received the ballot up through Election Day.

Early voting was extended to three weeks, in an effort to make voting location less crowded.

Interestingly, the Democratic Governor & Republican Sec of State in Kentucky collaborated on a sweeping revision of normal election code to make it easier to vote during Covid. This included sending vote by mail requests to every registered voter in the state.

[Initech]

38. That makes sense.

Conservatives did go out of their way to fuck things up during COVID, so this isn't surprising.

[Cha]

17. Ken Paxton, Fucking Fascist Asshole.

[pazzyanne]

18. Disgusting!!! nt

[Botany]

20. A.G. Merrick Garland are you listening? Paxton has admitted to both civil rights & voting

... rights abuses of the Citizens of Harris County, TX Constitutionally protected freedoms. Lock
him up.

[Marius25]

25. Garland has no plans to do anything about voter suppression

[Hekate]

23. New Jim Crow

[Indykatie]

24. This Bullsh*t Also Explains Beto's Loss n/t

[UCmeNdc]

26. So the Republicans admit it. They cheat the voters out of their right to vote.

In the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to all registered voters.

So isn't this illegal??????

[LeftinOH]

29. Again, intentionally conflating ballot *applications* with actual ballots.

Lying scumbag...

[flying_wahini]

30. Paxton is and has been a crook for his whole life.

His record of lying and stealing is considered a big plus for Republicans.

I’ve been saying for years but especially since the last election; Beto WON Texas.

PAXTON FOR PRISON 2024

[flying_wahini]

33. So it may be a bad time to mention it but Texas Dems ARE voting but the Cheating and lying

Treacherous Republicans think they can get away with it BECAUSE they DO.

So please go a bit easier on Texans for ‘not voting’.

[DFW]

34. Surely, you jest?

It has been a time-honored tradition to call us "Tex-ass" for years now, and although over 5 million of us Texas-registered voters voted Biden-Harris, none of us really exist.

The internet knows best.

Doesn't it?

[flying_wahini]

43. I'm a Texan and saying that the Repugs have been cheating and lying for decades.

So you are disagreeing with that?

[Kid Berwyn]

37. So an "Illegal Vote" really means a "Democratic Vote"

Nice. May that traitorous son of a bitch pay with decades in prison.

[catrose]

40. Never mind that for years the state mailed those applications to voters when they became eligible

[MayReasonRule]

41. This Is Y'all Qaeda Nat-C Fascist GOP Bukkake - The Beast's Depravity In Flagrante Delicto

Not gonna' watch 'em spit, squirt, swap and swallow.

Fascists are ouroboros.

In this case too, they always eat their own.

[karin_sj]

42. That is a hell of a lot of votes

I'll bet there would be more Democrats in the House of Representatives if not for Paxton's criminal interference.

[anarch]

44. I've suspected for a bit now that Texas would be a "blue" state if not for the vote suppression

The Republicans have done quite a job here of either stopping, you know, "those" people from voting, or else just not counting their votes...now they've put in place some new process where they can just override districts where they don't like how the vote turned out

[UCmeNdc]

45. That is the way Republicans do it.

Cheat!