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Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, is campaigning for Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers, who’s locked in a tight Senate face with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 12. Aaron Schwartz / Getty

A super PAC backing Democrat James Talarico for Texas Senate is releasing a new ad featuring a parade of Texas Republicans blasting Ken Paxton.

The ad, funded by the pro-Democratic Lone Star Rising PAC, includes snippets from television interviews and from Paxton’s 2023 impeachment hearing before the Texas state House. Paxton was impeached and later acquitted by the state Senate.

The critic first to appear on screen in the ad is a Republican whom Texans know well. “He’s corrupt. And he’s unfit for office,” longtime Texas Sen. John Cornyn is shown saying in a television interview clipped in the ad.

Another clip shows Paxton’s former first assistant attorney general, Jeff Mateer, who says Paxton “was engaged in conduct that was immoral, unethical and I have a good faith belief that it was illegal.”

Paxton ousted Cornyn from his position in a divisive primary in May.

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