Click here for an article at Newsweek by Jason Lemon entitled "Texas AG Says Trump Would've 'Lost' State If It Hadn't Blocked Mail-in Ballot Applications Being Sent Out."
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.
Biden defeated Trump in the electoral college, 306 to 232. Texas has 38 electoral votes. If Biden had won -- and he should have -- it would have been 344 to 194.
Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by exactly the same margin, 306 to 232, in 2016, and declared it a landslide. (It wasn't, really, but it's a good, solid victory). But 344 to 194 is pretty much a real landslide.
Unfortunately, Paxton and Texas governor Greg Abbott are in the process of making it even more difficult for Democrats to win in Texas.
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