In the wake of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crushing victory over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican Senate main, Republican operatives are quickly scrubbing from the internet months of attacks portraying Paxton as corrupt, dishonest and a risk to President Donald Trump’s agenda.
A NCS KFile evaluate discovered the National Republican Senatorial Committee, an official marketing campaign arm of the GOP, deleted at the very least two dozen press releases, digital adverts and statements attacking Paxton — together with posts labeling him “Crooked Ken,” criticizing his treatment of his then-wife throughout their divorce and accusing him of giving favorable therapy to an alleged youngster intercourse trafficker.
In feedback and posts relationship from the previous 12 months, the NRSC typically referred to Paxton as “crooked” and stated his “corruption” would threaten Republicans’ — and most significantly, Trump’s — agenda.
Other deleted press releases pointed to a controversial deal Paxton’s workplace made with an alleged intercourse trafficker which saved the man “out of prison and off the sex offender registry.”
“More Texans are now victims of an alleged child sex trafficker because Crooked Ken Paxton gave this dirtbag the kid-gloves treatment,” stated NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia in the since-purged press release. “Democrats and Paxton are already working together to threaten President Trump’s Senate Majority, now it turns out Paxton was making the kind of plea deals for child sex traffickers that you’d expect from a Democrat too.”
NRSC declined to remark to NCS and pointed to its assertion following Paxton’s win — which did not title the nominee.
“A state President Trump won by nearly 14 points isn’t going to elect James Talarico — a radical leftist who thinks God is nonbinary and that Texas should be a welcome mat for illegals. He is the most dangerous flank of the far left. Texas isn’t swapping brisket for open borders,” stated NRSC regional press secretary Samantha Cantrell.
Google’s advert transparency database additionally confirmed at the very least two NRSC anti-Paxton video adverts which have since been eliminated by the uploader, together with one titled “Ken Paxton Has a Dark Secret” and another accusing Paxton of “Helping the Woke Left” by giving almost $1 million to gender-affirming applications. The adverts at the moment are labeled “removed by the uploader.”
The NRSC additionally eliminated a handful of adverts towards Paxton from its YouTube channel.
One ad shows a picture of Paxton as a Ken-like doll encased in a plastic field. The voiceover, in accordance with a transcript, reads, “Introducing the all new Ken. He talks a big game about conservative values, but when it’s time to deliver he drags his feet. … Ken doesn’t stand up for conservatives, he stands in their way!”
Another since-deleted ad, titled “Texas Deserves Better Than Ken Paxton,” depicts a bucolic crossroad with crickets chirping. It then cuts to a shadowy avenue whereas police sirens, damaged glass and automotive alarms roar. “So, which Texas do you want to hear,” a narrator says. It ends with a title card that reads, “Texas deserves better than the sound of Ken Paxton” and a picture of Paxton together with his fingers in his ears.
The NRSC additionally deleted at the very least eight tweets from X about Paxton since 2025, together with two posts that stated he was “asleep” at the wheel.
“Instead of protecting Texans, Ken Paxton has been asleep at the wheel. He’s been using taxpayer dollars to give MILLIONS to leftist groups who: ❌Coach illegals on how to evade ICE ❌Push DEI hiring schemes ❌Offer transgender resources to kids,” the NRSC account tweeted in September 2025.
And once more in October 2025: “Ken Paxton is so asleep at the wheel he is treating Texas’ taxpayer dollars like Monopoly money — funneling hundreds of millions to liberal organizations and candidates.”
Paxton’s marketing campaign has not responded to this declare, although as Texas’ lawyer basic, he recently sued Harris County “for unlawfully allocating more than $1.3 million in public money to radical leftist organizations,” in accordance with a press launch.
NCS reached out to the Paxton marketing campaign for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.