Editorial cartoon. At a Texas GOP convention podium under a banner reading ELECT PAXTON FOR SENATE, a grotesque, oblivious Donald Trump counts insults on his fingers while a large dialogue box reads: Ken Paxton might be a crappy dresser. And a crappy speaker. And ugly. He smells bad. Hes a serial philanderer who spent Americas 250th birthday in Europe. Hes a millionaire with fifteen houses on a public servant salary. Actually, Im voting for Talarico. Beside him, Ken Paxton, drawn with his real droopy right eyelid and mismatched eye color, stands mortified and sweating, holding a drooping PAXTON campaign sign. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · rendered with gpt-image-2 on fal.ai
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