Trump asked about Texas travel following Paxton comments

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President Trump was asked Thursday why he was traveling to Texas to highlight manufacturing and the economy despite U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) saying the GOP midterm convention in Dallas hurt his polling numbers. "If Ken Paxton is telling people behind closed doors he thinks the convention hurt his poll numbers, why go to Texas?" Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked him. "Well, I'll tell you why: We have to win this election. You were there, that convention was a tremendous success," the president replied. "First of all, I won Texas all three times, the Hispanic vote all three times. Texas has been great to me." The New York Times recently published a leaked audio recording of Mr. Paxton saying that the midterm convention hurt him more than it helped. "To be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers," he said at a fundraiser. "Everybody's numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good." President Trump also repeated his clai