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Ken Paxton Thinks You Are Stupid
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August 10, 2026
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Citizens for Sanity, a super PAC supporting Ken Paxton's Senate run in Texas, has been putting AI generated ads on the air against Democratic candidate James Talarico. The first ran in June: a 15 second deepfake that puts a fabricated Talarico on screen singing a parody song about medical transition for children.
The second one borrows from 1964. The original Daisy ad ran exactly once, cast Barry Goldwater as a threat to American children, and closed with Lyndon Johnson's line about loving each other or dying. Johnson won in a landslide and the spot became the most famous attack ad in American political history.
In the remake, the girl picking daisies is regenerated with AI and placed on an operating table in front of a synthetic Talarico while a narrator lists procedures. Talarico's campaign says he has never supported gender reassignment surgery for minors and calls the ad a lie. The reported buy is 10 million dollars.
Hawk's point is that none of this is a policy argument. It is a bet on whether voters can tell a fabricated video from a real one.
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