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Ken Paxton: “A small group of Republicans for power align themselves in…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Immigration, Cartels, and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 21:18

Like, how did that happen? How does that happen? So I, you know, I think about, like, the Texas House and what's going on there, what's gone there for 16 years. We're A small group of Republicans for power align themselves in the House with the Democrats so that the speaker is elected by mostly Democrats and a few Republicans. They just did it again. Dustin Burroughs just got elected by a minority Republicans after he put the rules in place that the caucus, the Republican caucus, would decide who the speaker was. (21:18–21:24)

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Asserts that a small group of Republicans align with Democrats to elect the Texas House Speaker.

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