Texas Republican Ken Paxton practically served his Democratic challenger opposition material on a silver platter while defending his colored reputation during a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News. Paxton, President Donald Trump's choice for the Lone Star State's 2026 Senate race, couldn't have picked a worse comparison when "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo asked what he was going to do about being called "scandal-plagued" in a recent opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Claiming any controversies were concocted up by anti-Trump Republicans, he told voters, "I get why they said that, but the reality is they could say the same thing about Donald Trump" " the White House's chaos agent-in-chief, a convicted felon and alleged associate of prolific *** criminal Jeffrey Epstein.