Fox’s Peter Doocy Confronts Trump On Why He’s Campaigning For Paxton After AG Complained About Convention
- President Trump defended his decision to campaign for Texas AG Ken Paxton despite Paxton's complaints about the GOP convention hurting his poll numbers.
Fox News's Peter Doocyasked President Donald TrumpThursday about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's(R) complaints following the GOP's midterm convention.
"If Ken Paxton is telling people behind closed doors he thinks the convention hurt his poll numbers, why go to Texas? " Doocy asked, as Trump prepared to board his flight to stump for the AG.
"Well, I'll tell you why: We have to win this election. You were there, that convention was a tremendous success," Trump said. "It went up against the NFL. And as you know, they had 24 — I guess it was — I said 25 yesterday, they had 24 million views, and we had 107 million views."
"In other words, we beat the NFL by four times. And maybe that was so for Ken, but I can tell you we were there for a lot of reasons," Trump said, continuing:
"First of all, I won Texas all three times, the Hispanic vote all three times. Texas has been great to me. I'm going to Oklahoma now for the most part where we have the governor's race. But he should win. He wasn't favored to win, but I endorsed him, and he beat somebody that was unbeatable, [Gentner] Drummond.He's gonna be great."
Trump continued:
I'm going to Oklahoma now because I won all — think of it — I won every county. They have 77 counties, I won every single county all three times. Number two was Ronald Reagan in 56. I was 77. So, they say, "Why are you going?" I'm going there, like Alabama, same thing. I'm going because you have to thank the states that are with you 1,000 percent. And I haven't been there in a while and I want to thank them. We also have a governor's race that I think it's over but we have to make sure people get out and vote, even in Oklahoma. So, I love Oklahoma, I love Alabama, I love a lot of — Texas, as an example. But I go there because they want to see me there.
In audio obtained by The New York Times , Paxton said of Trump and the midterm convention, "When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody's numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good."
Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.
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