Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton admitted on Friday that Donald Trump would have lost Texas if he hadn’t taken steps to curb mail-in voting in large Democratic areas in the state.
Trump won Texas by 631,248 votes in the November presidential election. Paxton told Steve Bannon that would not have been possible if he didn’t fight off efforts to expand mail-in voting in Houston, San Antonio, and Austin.
“We had twelve lawsuits that we had to win. And if we had lost one of them, 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 said.
Last September the Texas Supreme Court granted Paxton’s request to stop Harris County officials from sending mail-in ballot applications to all its 2.4 million registered voters ahead of the November election.
“Had we not done that, we would have been in the very same situation, we would’ve been on election day,” Paxton said. “I was watching on election night and I knew, when I saw what was happening in these other states, that that would’ve been Texas. We would’ve been in the same boat. We would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election.”
