John Heilemann Slams Ken Paxton over Dubai New Year’s Eve Video with ‘Mistress and Two Indicted Fugitives’

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HEILEMANN: “Here’s the interesting thing of what’s going on with that race guys. Everybody’s talking about this Texas race and Republicans really thought they got a break when James Talarico went off the campaign trail for a couple of weeks and people wondered where he was. He came back, said he had a really severe case of the flu, but they were trying to make hay out of that Trump and and J.D. Vance were like where’s James Talarico? There were all kinds of rumors about where he might be. And then just as it’s been going like on this race all year long —”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
HEILEMANN: “— friends, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ unearthed some video of Ken Paxton partying on New Year’s Eve with — with his mis —”
SCARBOROUGH: “Oh, this is so great.”
HEILEMANN: “— with his mistress — with his mistress, and two indicted health care — people invite two Texans indicted for health care fraud who had decided to become fugitives and also —”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah.”
HEILEMANN: “— happened to be Ken Paxton donors. So there it is. The corruption scandal, the sex scandal, and the where is Ken Paxton story all rolled into one which kind of makes the question of whether James Talarico had the flu or not seem pretty irrelevant in that campaign. Republicans paying the price for Donald Trump sticking with Ken Paxton every single day.”