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Ken Paxton tripped up by 'luxury vacation' gaffe on campaign trip

politicsSep 20, 202616407

Texas Attorney General-turned-Senate candidate Ken Paxton wrote that his campaign’s "next stop: Cyprus with the great Ted Cruz," then deleted the post after State Rep. James Talarico corrected him, saying "It’s Cypress," a small community in Harris County. Talarico’s team captured a screenshot before the deletion and posted the exchange with the correction. Raw Story notes Paxton’s Forbes-estimated net worth at $13 million and frames the Cyprus/Cypress gaffe as part of a pattern of European vacation coverage. The article also recounts a Daily Mail report that a tourist in London said Paxton confronted him and lunged for his phone after the tourist filmed Paxton walking with Tracy Duhan. Paxton reportedly walked away only after the tourist’s wife began recording the confrontation.

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