{"id":79665,"date":"2026-10-07T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/paxton-admits-trumps-iran-war-and-us-gas-prices-are-plaguing-republicans-in-leaked-audio\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:54:59","slug":"paxton-admits-trumps-iran-war-and-us-gas-prices-are-plaguing-republicans-in-leaked-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/paxton-admits-trumps-iran-war-and-us-gas-prices-are-plaguing-republicans-in-leaked-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton admits Trump\u2019s Iran war and US gas prices are plaguing Republicans in leaked audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas attorney general acknowledged affordability was his party\u2019s \u2018biggest problem\u2019 heading into the midterms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/06\/donald-trump-ads-diesel-baltimore-midterms-media-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/05\/ken-paxton-texas-senate-campaign-control\">Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general <\/a>running as the Republican candidate in a competitive Senate race, admitted privately that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/06\/trump-federal-gas-tax\">rising fuel prices<\/a> as a result of Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war were hurting his party before the midterms in the latest leaked audio recording.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what issues were \u201cdragging\u201d his campaign at a closed-door fundraising event, Paxton replied, \u201cIt\u2019s not tariffs \u2026 it\u2019s the war, it\u2019s gas prices, it\u2019s diesel,\u201d according to an audio recording <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/07\/ken-paxton-iran-war-gas-prices-audio-trump-texas\">shared with Axios.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/07\/ken-paxton-trumps-iran-war-gas-prices-republicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas attorney general acknowledged affordability was his party\u2019s \u2018biggest problem\u2019 heading into the midterms US politics live \u2013 latest updates Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general running as the Republican candidate in a competitive Senate race, admitted privately that rising fuel prices as a result of Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war were hurting his party before &#8230; <a title=\"Paxton admits Trump\u2019s Iran war and US gas prices are plaguing Republicans in leaked audio\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/paxton-admits-trumps-iran-war-and-us-gas-prices-are-plaguing-republicans-in-leaked-audio\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Paxton admits Trump\u2019s Iran war and US gas prices are plaguing Republicans in leaked audio\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}