Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed if it hadn’t been for state leadership blocking counties from sending out mass mail-in ballots, former President Donald Trump would have lost the Lone Star State in 2020.
Paxton, a Republican who spearheaded a lawsuit with other attorneys general challenging the 2020 election results in four states, said he helped prevent Texas from being like other states he believes gave a dubious victory to President Joe Biden.
“We would’ve been in the same boat. We would’ve been one of those battleground states that were counting votes in Harris County for three days, and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election,” Paxton said on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast on Friday.
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Harris County, which houses Houston, sought to mail out applications for absentee ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted other states and localities to make similar moves.
The Texas Supreme Court subsequently blocked Harris County, which has more than 2 million registered voters, from sending out unsolicited mail-in ballot applications after Paxton took legal action.
“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.
Texas Republicans have since been trying to strengthen voting rules in the state, mirroring other pushes by GOP-led legislatures to shore up voting measures after the 2020 election.
Last week, Texas Democrats walked out of the state Capitol, blocking GOP lawmakers a quorum in the legislative session, according to a report by CBS News. Gov. Greg Abbott said he would call a special session to get an election bill passed.
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Republicans have sought to advance election bills in several other states, including Georgia and Florida, after GOP officials and Trump alleged voter fraud took place in the 2020 election, giving what some call an unfair victory to Biden. Several federal agencies and members of Trump’s administration have said they found no evidence mass voter fraud took place.
