Laura Ingraham: This shows Trump was right to endorse Paxton

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]H MY GOD HE'S HAVING A STROKE.

[00:00:03]>> Laura: GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, I'M LAURA INGRAHAM.

[00:00:06]THIS IS "THE INGRAHAM ANGLE."

[00:00:07]THANK YOU AS ALWAYS FOR SPENDING TIME WITH US.

[00:00:09]WE HAVE THAT COMING AND A LOT MORE.

[00:00:11]FIRST, TRUMP AND TEXAS TAKE ON THE SENATE.

[00:00:13]THAT'S MY FOCUS OF MY "ANGLE."

[00:00:17]>> Laura: KEN PAXTON'S PRIMARY WIN IN TEXAS HAS ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE REALLY, REALLY UPSET.

[00:00:24]>> REALLY?

[00:00:25]THIS IS WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PRIME GIVES YOU?

[00:00:27]>> DONALD TRUMP ATTRACTS THE WORST PEOPLE.

[00:00:29]>> THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, HOWEVER, IS GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND A FORTUNE TO TRY AND SAVE PAXTON IN TEXAS.

[00:00:38]>> Laura: THE MORE SALIENT POINT IS WHY DID JOHN THUNE ALLOW THE NRSC TO BLOW $100 MILLION TO SAVE JOHN CORNYN.

[00:00:47]FOR WHAT?

[00:00:47]ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING SYMBOLS OF THE G.O.P.

[00:00:50]ESTABLISHMENT WASN'T JUST DEFEATED LAST NIGHT.

[00:00:52]HE WAS CRUSHED BY NEARLY 28 POINTS.

[00:00:58]NATURALLY THE BELTWAYMEDIA IN MD HAVE BEEN IN BLACK.

[00:01:02]TELLS YOU THE PEOPLE AND DONALD TRUMP GOT THIS EXACTLY RIGHT.

[00:01:05]POLITICO SAID CORNYN'S SUPPORTERS WERE MOURNING HIM AS AN INSTITUTIONALIST WHO FELL VICTIM TO THE RISE OF THE POPULIST RIGHT.

[00:01:12]THE END OF AN ERA OF COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM.

[00:01:17]TRANSLATION: WE'LL MISS HAVING A REPUBLICAN WE CAN CO-OPT ON ISSUES LIKE IMMIGRATION, TRADE, AND GUN SAFETY.

[00:01:23]THE TEXAS TRIBUNE LAMENTED THE DEFEAT OF THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN REPUBLICANS.

[00:01:30]TRANSLATION: WE LIKE GENTEEL REPUBLICANS WHO DON'T CAUSE TROUBLE, WHO LOSE GRACIOUSLY.

[00:01:36]NOW, FOR MANY YEARS, REPORTERS AND SENATE DEMOCRATS HAVE COUNTED ON ESTABLISHMENT FIGURES LIKE JOHN CORNYN TO HELP STYMIE THE MAGA AGENDA IN THE SENATE.

[00:01:46]IT'S WHY THEY'RE REALLY GOING TO MISS JOHN AND WHY THEY REALLY DREAD KEN PAXTON.

[00:01:52]NOW, THAT YOU WILL DEMONSTRATES IS THAT TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO ENDORSE PAXTON IN THE FINAL WEEK OF THE CAMPAIGN.

[00:01:57]NOW, ALTHOUGH IT WAS PRETTY CLEAR BACK IN 2022 WHAT THE VOTERS WERE ALREADY FEELING ABOUT CORNYN WHEN HE SHOWED UP AT THAT STATE CONVENTION AS HE WAS PROMOTING GUN LEGISLATION AFTER THE UVALDE SHOOTING.

[00:02:11]>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME OUR FRIEND AND SENIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN CORNYN.

[00:02:18]>> BIG BAD JOHN.

[00:02:28][CROWD BOOS] >> HOWDY, EVERYBODY.

[00:02:32]>> Lawrence: HOWDY, EVERYBODY.

[00:02:33]STOP BOOING.

[00:02:34]NOW, IN THE END, AFTER FOUR DECADES IN WASHINGTON, TEXAS REPUBLICANS CONCLUDED THAT CORNYN WASN'T DELIVERING ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTERED MOST TO THEM.

[00:02:44]REPUBLICAN VOTERS WANT ACTION, NOT WORDS.

[00:02:47]THEY WANT TO SAVE AMERICA ACT ON THE SENATE FLOOR.

[00:02:50]THEY WANT IT PASSED.

[00:02:51]THEY WANT TO END THE FILIBUSTER.

[00:02:53]THEN THEY WANT THE TRUMP AGENDA CODIFIED INTO LAW.

[00:02:56]THEY WANT A FIGHTER FOR THE TRUMP AGENDA AND IN CHOOSING BETWEEN PAXTON WITH ALL HIS BAGGAGE AND CORNYN WHO CAMPAIGNED FOR THE WILL LEGALIZATION OF DREAMERS IN 2021.

[00:03:11]THE CHOICE WAS EASY, IT WAS PACT.

[00:03:15]AND THROWING HIS WEIGHT BEHIND HIM TRUMP WAS ALREADY FOLLOWING WHAT THE PEOPLE ALREADY WANTED.

[00:03:19]AND UNDERSTAND THIS: THE REASON THE MEDIA, THEY'RE FREAKING OUT, IS THE SAME REASON THEY FREAKED OUT IN 2016 AND 2024.

[00:03:28]THE SUPPOSED DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY HATE IT.

[00:03:31]THEY ABSOLUTELY HATE IT WHEN THE REPUBLICAN BASE GETS ITS WAY.

[00:03:36]BECAUSE, IF IT WERE UP TO THE SCRIBBLERS AND THE DRIBBLERS, DEMOCRAT VOTERS WOULD CHOOSE NOT ONLY THEIR NOMINEES, THEY WOULD CHOOSE REPUBLICANS, TOO.

[00:03:45]LOOK, THEY DESPISE TRUMP FOR REENERGIZING THE G.O.P. BECAUSE THEY LIKE THE OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY.

[00:03:51]THE ONE THAT TOUTED LOUSY BIPARTISAN DEALS THAT ONLY MADE OUR MIDDLE CLASS POORER AND LESS SAFE.

[00:03:58]AND THAT THEY LOVE THAT PARTY THAT BEFORE DONALD TRUMP IT HADN'T WON A PRESIDENTIAL RACE SINCE 2004.

[00:04:11]PAXTON, HE SAYS CHANGE IS COMING.

[00:04:13]>> TONIGHT WE SENT A TEXAS-SIZE MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON.

[00:04:15]I SAID IT IN MARCH AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN NOW TODAY CHANGE WAS ON THE BALLOT AND CHANGE WON.

[00:04:21][CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Laura: SO AT THIS POINT, REALLY THE ONLY THING THE PRESS CAN DO IS THEY WILL DREDGE UP ALL THE OLD STUFF ON PAXTON.

[00:04:30]BUT THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO ENGAGE IN WISHFUL THINKING.

[00:04:34]THINKING THAT CORNYN NOW MIGHT JOIN THE RANKS OF OTHER REPUBLICANS RECENTLY VANQUISHED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND BEGIN BUCKING THE PRESIDENT MORE.

[00:04:43]>> I HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED THE REPUBLICAN TICKET AND I INTEND TO DO SO AGAIN IN THIS GENERAL ELECTIONS.

[00:04:51]I TRUST THE VOTERS OF TEXAS AND THEY HAVE MADE THEIR DECISION AND I MUST RESPECT IT.

[00:04:58]>> Laura: OH, HE ESSENTIALLY SAID HE WAS GOING TO CAMPAIGN ALTHOUGH HE DIDN'T MENTION PACT BY NAME THAT HE WOULD CAMPAIGN FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IN NOVEMBER, AS HE SHID SHOULD MOVING ON TO NOVEMBER.

[00:05:12]THE SAME PEOPLE THINK TALARICO WILL SMASH PAXTON ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO SELL US BETO O'ROURKE.

[00:05:19]ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE THE SAME CAMPAIGN.

[00:05:21]LOOK AT THAT.

[00:05:21]SAME HAND, POCKET.

[00:05:23]NOW, THIS IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF FUN TO COVER.

[00:05:25]AND THEY ARE TRYING THE SAME PROMISES.

[00:05:28]THAT TALARICO IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEMOCRAT.

[00:05:31]I'LL SAY.

[00:05:32]>> IT'S NOW EXISTENTIAL THAT WE TRY TO REDUCE OUR MEAT CONSUMPTION AND THAT WE TRY TO RESPECT ANIMALS.

[00:05:39]I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT OUR CAMPAIGN HAS OFFICIALLY BECOME A NONMEAT CAMPAIGN, SO WE.

[00:05:47][CHEERS] >> WE ARE -- WE ARE ONLY BUYING VEGAN PRODUCTS FROM OUR LOCAL VEGAN BUSINESSES.

[00:05:53]>> Laura: A MASK AND THE VEGAN, TOTAL DISQUALIFIER.

[00:05:57]BUT, BY THE WAY NOW HE SAYS HE IS NOT A VEGAN.

[00:06:00]THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

[00:06:01]AND THE BIG CHRISTIAN HAS AN INTERESTING READING OF SCRIPTURE.

[00:06:06]>> I TRUST TEXAS WOMEN TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODIES.

[00:06:12]I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S A PLACE FOR GOVERNMENT.

[00:06:14]>> THAT'S A BELIEF I HOLD NOT DESPITE MY FAITH BUT BECAUSE OF MY FAITH.

[00:06:22]JESUS NEVER TALKS ABOUT ABORTION.

[00:06:24]THE BIBLE IS SILENT ON ABORTION.

[00:06:27]>> Laura: OKAY.

[00:06:27]THE BIBLE IS SILENT ON ABORTION.

[00:06:29]ANOTHER DISQUALIFIER.

[00:06:31]THE COMMANDMENT THOU SHALT NOT KILL, EVER HEARD OF IT?

[00:06:34]AND THAT'S NOT ALL.

[00:06:35]>> GOD IS BOTH MASCULINE AND FEMININE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

[00:06:42]GOD IS NONBINARY.

[00:06:44]>> MOST CHRISTIANS WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD IS BEYOND GENDER.

[00:06:48]IN FACT, THE APOSTLE PAUL, IN HIS LETTER TO THE GALATIANS SAID THAT IN CHRIST THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE.

[00:06:55]AND SO IF SOMEONE HAS GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT STATEMENT, THEY SHOULDN'T TAKE IT UP WITH ME, THEY SHOULD TAKE IT UP WITH THE APOSTLE PAUL.

[00:07:04]>> Laura: IS THAT RUPAUL AND THEN WHAT REALLY FLOATS HIS BOAT?

[00:07:08]>> SOMETHING THAT YOU LOVE THAT'S NOT FAMILY OR FRIENDS?

[00:07:14]>> I LOVE -- I'M JUST GOING TO SAY IT BECAUSE IT'S ON MY MIND, THE TRANS CHILDREN WHO SHOWED UP YESTERDAY AT THE STATE CAPITOL TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR HUMANITY.

[00:07:26]>> Laura: HE REALLY WANTS YOU TO THINK HE'S ALL MAN.

[00:07:29]>> THE MOST POPULAR QUESTION THAT WE GOT ASKED IS, ARE YOU SINGLE?

[00:07:35]ARE YOU SINGLE?

[00:07:37]SO YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

[00:07:38]>> I DO.

[00:07:39]>> OF MANY YEARS.

[00:07:40]>> I DO.

[00:07:43]AND SHE IS-SHE IS MY ROCK.

[00:07:46]SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND.

[00:07:49]>> Laura: AND SHE IS AN ENANYTHING THAT.

[00:07:52]NO ONE KNOWS WHO SHE IS WHICH CANDIDATE DO YOU TRUST TO FIGHT FOR THE TRUMP AGENDA WHICH IS WILDLY POPULAR IN TEXAS.

[00:08:08]CLOSED BORDER, SAFE STREETS, LOW TAXES, GAS INDEPENDENCE.

[00:08:15]WE KNOW CHUCK SCHU