{"id":24927,"date":"2026-06-01T06:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/gop-strategist-trump-made-a-100m-mistake-backing-paxton\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:41:55","slug":"gop-strategist-trump-made-a-100m-mistake-backing-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/gop-strategist-trump-made-a-100m-mistake-backing-paxton\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP strategist: Trump made a \u2018$100M mistake\u2019 backing Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/AP20163731708119.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>GOP strategist Brad Todd on Sunday said President Trump made a \u201c100-million-dollar mistake\u201d by backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).  \u201cI think the president made a 100-million-dollar mistake in picking Ken Paxton and urging Republican primary voters to vote for him. John Cornyn is a much more&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5903264-gop-strategist-trump-made-a-100m-mistake-backing-paxton\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP strategist Brad Todd on Sunday said President Trump made a \u201c100-million-dollar mistake\u201d by backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to replace incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). \u201cI think the president made a 100-million-dollar mistake in picking Ken Paxton and urging Republican primary voters to vote for him. John Cornyn is a much more&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}