Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton didn’t discard millions of mail ballots | Politifact
May 30 on Twitter, claimed Paxton, a Republican, “admitted he stopped Democratic votes from being counted,” which the tweet said “would have given President Biden and Beto O’Rourke wins in Texas.”June 2021
appearance on Steven Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. Paxton said Trump would have lost in Texas in 2020 if the attorney general’s office had not mounted a successful legal challenge to block counties from sending mail-in ballot applications to registered voters. “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 said on the podcast.
“Had we not done that … we would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election,” Paxton continued., though he ultimately lost the election to Biden. But both Paxton’s account and the social media posts misconstrued what happened with mail-in voting in Texas during the 2020 election.
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