Texas AG Ken Paxton dodges questions on alleged voter fraud for third time this week

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Flees Questions on Alleged Voter Fraud

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is literally running away from accusations of voter fraud.

A bombshell report earlier this month exposed Paxton for allegedly voting in six elections while registered at an address where he does not live.

On Friday, while entering the Ronald Reagan Republican Center in Washington, D.C., Paxton was asked point-blank whether he had committed voter fraud. Rather than face the music, the attorney general raced inside.

This is not the first time Paxton has run from questions about his alleged voter fraud. Earlier this week, Paxton fled a press conference when faced with tough questions, earning him the nickname "No Comment Ken."

"This is at least the third time just this week he's literally run away from questions of this sort," journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X.

In another tough moment on Thursday, Paxton refused to answer whether he was ready to debate James Talarico, the Democratic Texas Senate candidate, who has publicly accused his opponent of voter fraud.

This form of voter fraud is a second-degree felony punishable by a fine up to $10,000 and up to 20 years in prison. Paxton, a fierce ally of President Donald Trump, has previously advocated for cracking down on voter fraud, while also threatening to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

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Former CBS Correspondent Reveals Network Pressure Under Bari Weiss

CBS News chief Bari Weiss has been so busy skewing the storied network's coverage that she has gotten basic facts wrong—including elementary details about America's leaders and where they are from.

Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega spoke at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Conference in New Orleans on Thursday, revealing that she had endured network pressure on a number of issues before she was fired, including one particularly stunning dispute over a story on SNAP benefit cuts in West Virginia.

While stopping short of referring to Weiss by name, Vega said her decision to tell the story strictly through the eyes of West Virginians had spurred backlash from CBS's "new" top brass because she had not interviewed Vice President JD Vance or referred to his decade-old memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

But Vance, as Vega pointed out, is from Ohio—not West Virginia.

Other arguments bubbled up over the network's new intent to insert political bias into the famed news magazine's reporting, according to Vega. One such instance involved demands by network executives that she include footage of protesters attacking plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota—footage that her team discovered did not exist. She said she was also tasked with inserting a line into one of her scripts that claimed Iran was "totally outgunned" by U.S. and Israeli forces—a detail that she noted was a copy-paste administration talking point.

Weiss, the founder of the pro-Israel blog The Free Press and a former New York Times opinion columnist, was tapped to run CBS News late last year, despite the fact that she had never worked in broadcast journalism, lacked traditional reporting experience, and had also never run a major news operation.

Weiss's business decisions atop the news giant have unequivocally and single-handedly divorced CBS News from its decades-long place within America's prestige news media circuit. What was once crowned the "gold standard" of broadcasting and the home of some of journalism's most venerable names, such as Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, has since devolved into a graveyard for journalism ethics.

Under Weiss's stewardship, CBS News has killed critical stories in order to save face for the Trump administration. In December, Weiss pulled the plug on a critical story.