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KP Ken Paxton Ken Paxton Ken Paxton has been Texas Attorney General since 2015.

“He's completely changed positions on boys and girls sports, the state income tax that he voted for, every position, the oil and gas industry, which he tried to abolish in the state of Texas, the meat thing. There's nothing this guy hasn't changed on to try to fool the Texas voters into believing he's a conservative Republican as opposed to a left-wing Democrat.”

The Sean Hannity Show · US Politics · September 2026

“He's completely changed positions on boys and girls sports, the state income tax that he voted for, every position, the oil and gas industry, which he tried to abolish in the state of Texas, the meat thing. There's nothing this guy hasn't changed on to try to fool the Texas voters into believing he's a conservative Republican as opposed to a left-wing Democrat.” — Ken Paxton on James Talarico, The Sean Hannity Show

Context

Ken Paxton, the Republican Senate nominee, speaking to Sean Hannity about his Democratic opponent James Talarico, five weeks before the November 2026 election. Hannity had just raised Talarico's recent shift on gender and sports.

Transcript

The Sean Hannity Show Around 05:09 into the episode
Ken Paxton

…to make them mean the opposite of what was actually in Scripture. And if you don't know your Bible, you could be easily fooled into believing that some of what he's saying is true and that he's a legitimate Christian, when in reality... His comments are heretical to the to the Christian faith.

Sean Hannity

…must not be polling well because only recently did he say, well, my math was off or whatever excuse he came up with. So it seems like he's gone to the AOC school of, oh, that was crazy woke 1.0 and is trying to hide his real positions. I hope you're making the people of Texas aware of all of this.

Ken Paxton

No, we're absolutely doing that, and that's just one example of many, many. He's completely changed positions on boys and girls sports, the state income tax that he voted for, every position, the oil and gas industry, which he tried to abolish in the state of Texas, the meat thing. There's nothing this guy hasn't changed on to try to fool the Texas voters into believing he's a conservative Republican as opposed to a left-wing Democrat.

Sean Hannity

Well, look, I think the people of Texas are smart. God bless Texas. I watched this unfold with Ted Cruz back in the day when Beto Bozo O'Rourke, and it was far less known about him when Ted ran against him. And the polls were very, very tight in the beginning of that race. Ted ended up winning by a…

Speaker 3

No, there's no doubt.

Speaker 6

Look.

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