President Donald Trump paused for a long moment when Fox News asked, “Why go to Texas?” after Senate nominee Ken Paxton (R-TX) privately cast shade on the president’s convention for hurting his campaign.
Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked the question Thursday afternoon outside the White House as Trump prepared to board Marine One for his first campaign stop of the week.
The White House had again removed CNN from the broadcast pool at the last moment, leaving no pool camera, and drums in the background made the president difficult to hear.
“If Ken Paxton is telling people behind closed doors that he thinks the convention hurt his poll numbers, why go to Texas?” Doocy asked.
“Well…” Trump replied, before a long, uncharacteristic pause.
“I’ll tell you what… We have to win this election. That convention, you were there. That convention was a tremendous success,” the president eventually said before claiming the convention drew 107 million views compared with 24 million for an NFL broadcast airing against it.
“In other words, we beat the NFL by four times,” he insisted.
Paxton told about a dozen conservative donors and lobbyists at a private Washington fundraiser last week that Trump’s midterm convention in Dallas this month had hurt him, according to an audio recording obtained by Raw Story
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