Why the Rays' Shane McClanahan vs. Orioles pitching matchup looks like a betting gift

I've talked about this before, but there are some games where the line just stands out to you. Normally, it is because you feel like the book is really off about something. In my experience, I've either been a huge winner because of this, or I temper my expectations because I feel like there is something I have to be missing that the books know. That's how I feel about today's game between the Rays and Orioles. The line is off, but maybe I'm missing something. The only way to find out is to throw some cash on it.

The Tampa Bay Rays are among the best teams in baseball, and they were a team that was predicted to be essentially a .500 team. As of right now, they own the American League East and the best record in the American League. They only need to hold up for another few weeks in order to get to the finish line. The Yankees are still chasing them, despite all the injuries, and the Red Sox are within a reasonable striking distance. They aren't playing great baseball at the moment, having lost three of the last five, but they are still in a good spot.

What is surprising to me about today's game is that Shane McClanahan is on the bump for the Rays, and they are only moderate favorites to beat the Orioles. For the season, McClanahan is 9-6 with a 3.25 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP. Perhaps the reason is that he hasn't been great on the road this season, throwing to a 4.31 ERA in away games. It really isn't the result of home runs or hits. It seems that his control just isn't quite as good. He has 21 walks in 48 innings on the road, compared to 14 in 54 innings at home. The other reason is that he has allowed seven earned runs in 13.2 innings over three starts against the Orioles. However, his best start against them came on the road, when he allowed just three hits in 5.1 scoreless innings.

The Baltimore Orioles are a team we've spoken about frequently in these articles. They didn't get the season they were hoping for, but there is some reason for positivity. Their signing of Pete Alonso was great. Gunnar Henderson has shown good pop, even if he has struck out far too much. But I suppose the best thing to keep in mind is they got some decent returns for the players they traded away midseason. It isn't going to help them this year, but when you're already looking forward to next season, some positivity helps.

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Another bright spot in the dark year has been today's hurler, Brandon Young. For the season, Young is 9-3 with a 3.52 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP. He has been solid at home this year with a 3.39 ERA. Young is a guy the Orioles probably will lean on next season as well. With his numbers, he can reasonably fit into the middle of their rotation and not have any real issues. He has faced Tampa once this season, it was his most recent start, and he allowed four earned runs (three homers) over four innings of work.

When I looked at the pitching matchup I just kind of scratched my head on why this wasn't a -165 or higher game. McClanahan doesn't go overly deep, but the Rays have one of the better bullpens in baseball. Sure, Young should make some adjustments and improve on his performance. However, McClanahan should as well. I just don't see why the Orioles are getting love. I'll temper my expectations a bit in case I'm missing something, but I'm taking the Rays because I think this line is a gift from the books.

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Laken Snelling, ex-University of Kentucky student, pleads guilty to death of baby found dead in closet

A former University of Kentucky student-athlete has pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of her infant son, who was found inside a trash bag in a closet.

Laken Snelling, 22, a member of the university's STUNT team, initially pleaded not guilty before changing her plea on Friday in connection with her newborn's death, FOX 56 reported. She was indicted by a Fayette County grand jury and faced a slew of charges, including abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

"I was under a lot of emotional stress and my baby came unexpectedly," Snelling said while crying in court. "And instead of helping him, I ended his life and afterward I cleaned up and didn’t tell anyone."

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When asked by Judge Diane Minnifield how she ended the baby's life, Snelling said: "I deprived him of oxygen."

Commonwealth's attorney Kimberly Baird said that Snelling’s attorney approached prosecutors as plans changed.

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"This was a case that needed to go straight to the grand jury anyway, as opposed to just entering a plea," Baird said, according to the news outlet. "The grand jury returned the indictment for first-degree manslaughter, and then they returned and suggested that offer. We accepted."

Officers in Lexington responded to reports of an unresponsive infant on Aug. 27, 2024, and found the child's remains inside a black trash bag, according to a news release from the city of Lexington. The baby's body was cold.

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Snelling was arrested days later. She told staff at the University of Kentucky hospital that she heard the newborn "whimper" at birth and "guessed" he was alive, according to an affidavit previously cited by FOX 56.

The baby also showed "a little fetal movement," the court document stated. Snelling told investigators that she was awake for 30 minutes after giving birth before passing out on top of the baby. When she woke up, she saw the newborn "turning blue and purple," court documents state.

She believed the baby was dead, so she "wrapped him like a burrito" and laid next to him, saying it "gave her comfort," officials said. At some point, she told her roommates that she was going to see a doctor because she had fainted from not eating.

Afterward, she picked up McDonald’s and went to the student health clinic but "did not go inside," the affidavit stated.

A subsequent search of Snelling’s phone revealed she had deleted labor photos and evidence of the pregnancy, police said.

Snelling faces up to 10 years in prison.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Snelling's attorney and the Fayette Commonwealth's Attorney's Office for comment.

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Time to face facts: Fantasy football punishments have officially jumped the shark in 2026

With the first real week of preseason football in the books, the regular season feels well within reach, and with that, the accoutrements that go along with it as well.

Of all the added fun to accompany an NFL season, nothing can top the excitement of fantasy football.

It has taken on a life of its own and has practically become its own sport, giving fans even more reason to tune into games they otherwise would have no interest in watching, and because we are so close to the start of the actual NFL season, that means fantasy football drafts are sure to follow.

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While things like draft order and league rules are a topic of conversation at the start of any fantasy season, something that most leagues also try to get squared away on day one is the punishment for whoever finishes last.

Now, let me just say, I think "punishing" someone for finishing in last place for a game that is essentially chance and injury luck is kind of dumb on its face, but I have to admit there have been some humorous punishments in the past.

A personal favorite of mine was the guy who had to stay at a Waffle House for 24 hours, but each waffle he ate during that timespan knocked an hour off of his sentence.

It was funny and creative, but lately I feel like we've been getting less of both of those qualities in our fantasy football punishments.

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There's a theory in the world of comedy called "the law of diminishing returns," and I believe that's what we are starting to see with fantasy punishments in today's day and age.

I'm not saying we've seen every punishment imaginable - there are still some new and creative ones being explored - but by and large, they either feel like repeats or they just aren't very funny.

Here's one where the loser has to stand up in a public setting and tell everyone why he would make a bad boyfriend.

There's nothing creative about it and it isn't all that funny, it's just kind of mean.

Then you had this one where the loser's friends duct taped him to a chair and poured a bunch of food products onto him.

Again, not super funny or creative unless you're a fan of frat initiations or interrogation tactics.

Everything just feels so forced and contrived these days. It's almost as if the demand for good fantasy punishments is outweighing the supply.

They're either too gimmicky, too mean-spirited, or something a 12-year-old would find funny.

"Hey dude, we made Brian stand on the street corner in a chicken suit with a sign that says 'I SUCK AT FANTASY FOOTBALL.'"

Hilarious!

Also, he doesn't "suck" at fantasy football. His starting wide receivers both blew their knees out before week five and his starting quarterback tripped on his kid's skateboard and dislocated his elbow.

It's called "bad luck" (not that I'm speaking from experience or anything).

If you can think of a creative and funny punishment, go for it. Otherwise, maybe skip that part and just pay the winner $100.

Losing is punishment enough, so pour out your friend's coffee you mixed with laxatives, use the range balls for something other than target practice on his bare back, and for God's sake, donate that stupid chicken suit to a local elementary school.

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10 House incumbent lawmakers who saw their 2026 re-election bids end in primary defeat

So far during the 2026 election season, 10 incumbent House lawmakers have lost primaries, including three Republicans and seven Democrats.

The three Republican incumbents who fell short include Dan Crenshaw of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Andy Ogles of Tennessee.

The seven incumbent House Democrats who lost include Al Green of Texas, Julie Johnson of Texas, Dan Goldman of New York, Adriano Espaillat of New York, Diana DeGette of Colorado, Shri Thanedar of Michigan, and John Larson of Connecticut.

The failed Texas and Tennessee U.S. House incumbents grappled with redistricting in their states that applied to this cycle.

Crenshaw, the only U.S. House Republican incumbent seeking re-election in Texas who did not get President Donald Trump's endorsement, lost the GOP primary for Texas' 2nd Congressional District to state Rep. Steve Toth.

While Trump did not endorse either of the men ahead of the primary, he has since endorsed Toth.

Crenshaw has served in the House since 2019.

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Massie lost the Republican primary for Kentucky's 4th Congressional District to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL.

The race made history as the most expensive U.S. House primary contest ever, reports indicate.

Massie has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since late 2012.

Despite having Trump's endorsement, Ogles lost the GOP primary for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District to former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher.

Ogles has served in the House since 2023.

Trump backed Hatcher last week after he defeated Ogles in the primary.

"Last night was another good night for Endorsements, 8-1, and the 1 was a person who I remained loyal to even though he had virtually no chance of winning, and was running against a Great 'Trump' Candidate, and former Agricultural Commissioner of Tennessee, named Charlie Hatcher. Good luck Charlie! Run tough and hard. You have my Complete and Total Endorsement!" Trump declared in a Truth Social post.

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Thanedar, who has served as a lawmaker in the lower congressional chamber since 2023, lost the Democratic U.S. House primary in Michigan's 13th Congressional District this year to state Rep. Donavan McKinney, a Democratic socialist.

Thanedar declared in October 2023 that he was renouncing Democratic Socialists of America membership, though then-Detroit DSA co-chair Mikal Goodman declared at the time in a post on X that Thanedar "was expelled as a member on September 17th, by 91% of vote the general membership. He no longer had a membership to renounce."

Goldman, who took office in 2023, lost the Democratic U.S. House primary in New York's 10th Congressional District to former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander.

Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, had backed Lander ahead of the primary contest.

"He’ll bring principled leadership to Washington and make sure Congress works for the many, not just the few," Mamdani wrote in part of a post on X.

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Espaillat lost the Democratic U.S. House primary for New York's 13th Congressional District to Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, who was also endorsed by Mamdani.

The congressman has served in the U.S. House chamber since 2017.

He is chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

DeGette lost the Democratic U.S. House primary for Colorado's 1st Congressional District to Democratic socialist Melat Kiros.

The congresswoman has served in the House for nearly two decades since taking office in 1997.

Green, who has served in the House since 2005, lost the Democratic U.S. House primary runoff for Texas' 18th Congressional District to U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee.

Johnson, who has only served in the House since last year, lost the Democratic U.S. House primary runoff for Texas' 33rd Congressional District to former Rep. Colin Allred.

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Larson, who has served in the House since 1999, lost the Democratic U.S. House primary in Connecticut's 1st Congressional District to former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin.

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Why you should back the Indiana Fever to cover the spread against the New York Liberty Tuesday

As long as there is no football, Caitlin Clark is must-see TV. Clark and the Indiana Fever (20-12) host the New York Liberty (20-13) Tuesday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse for a 7:30 p.m. ET tip-off. At FanDuel, Indiana is a -2.5 favorite (-106) with a -134 moneyline on a 192.5 total.

These teams split their first two meetings this season, with the home team winning and covering both: New York 83-75 in June and Indiana 108-88 in July.

However, the Fever won their game more convincingly. In the Liberty’s win, they were down entering the fourth quarter and got 24 more free throws (40-16). Indy outperformed New York in three of the "four factors" and won despite Clark playing poorly (only 17 points on 5-of-14 shooting with 7 turnovers).

Since that game, Clark has been ballin’. She is averaging 25.0 points on 49.4% field goal shooting (43.5% from behind the arc) and 9.5 assists in the six games since the last Liberty-Fever meeting.

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Best bet: Indiana Fever -2.5 (-106)

For what it’s worth, Clark is on the injury report as "probable" and, obviously, Indiana’s price would come down if she is ruled out. But I’m taking a shot while expecting her to play because the Fever can win this game by margin even if Clark doesn’t play.

They have two other All-Stars: C Aliyah Boston and SG Kelsey Mitchell, who might be better than Clark. Mitchell leads the team in scoring with 24.2 points per game on 50.4% shooting, and Boston is a four-time WNBA All-Star and a former No. 1 overall pick in 2023.

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Also, Indiana has won three of its last five games since playing New York last month, but those two losses were to the first-place Minnesota Lynx and the reigning WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces on a buzzer-beater in overtime.

The Liberty are 7-1 straight up in their last game vs. the Fever, but just 2-6 against the spread (ATS). Indy’s game was Saturday and New York’s was Sunday. Indiana is 10-4 ATS with a rest edge this season, and the Liberty are 2-10 ATS with a rest disadvantage.

Meanwhile, there’s a chance Indy is bonding with all the drama around this team, from Sophie Cunningham getting clotheslined to her public commentary about transgender people playing women's sports, and anything involving Clark.

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Obviously, that isn’t something I can quantify, but I feel like there is a "us against the world" card the Fever can play in the locker room. Whether Indiana head coach Stephanie White is using that as motivation, or doing anything positive for her team, is another conversation.

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Trump wins permission to file amended complaint in $10B defamation lawsuit against BBC

President Donald Trump notched a legal victory on Monday when a district judge granted his Leave to File First Amended Complaint in Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), allowing the president’s legal team to amend his complaint against the global broadcaster. 

Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC in December in a personal capacity for both defamation and for a violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking $10 billion total. Trump was seeking permission to modify his original lawsuit, but the BBC insisted he missed the deadline and was playing tactical legal games to avoid financial disclosures. 

United States District Judge Roy K. Altman sided with Trump, granting him permission to file an amended complaint and wiping out the BBC's previous motion to dismiss as "moot."

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"Today’s strong and thoughtful ruling is a major win for President Trump’s powerhouse lawsuit against the formerly respected and now disgraced BBC, which defamed President Trump by intentionally, maliciously and deceptively doctoring his speech in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. President Trump is holding the leftist BBC, along with all of its comrades in the mainstream media, accountable for their peddling of Fake News through deception and maliciously defamatory conduct," a spokesman for Trump’s legal team told Fox News Digital. 

The BBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The BBC has faced scrutiny over the 2024 "Panorama" documentary about Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, as the documentary — titled "Trump: A Second Chance?" — stitched together remarks Trump made nearly an hour apart during his address that made it appear as if he had told his supporters to "fight like hell" at the Capitol, shortly before the riot there that day.

The issue surrounding the documentary’s editing integrity comes after a report from The Telegraph revealed excerpts from a whistleblower dossier compiled by Michael Prescott, a communications advisor hired by the BBC to review its editorial standards.

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The whistleblower alleged the network’s documentary spliced two separate comments made by Trump nearly an hour apart on the day of the Capitol riot, which erroneously implied that the president was calling for violence from his supporters.

"We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And I'll be there with you. And we fight — we fight like hell," the documentary showed Trump saying, without noting that the statement had been edited.

In reality, Trump said, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."

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Trump called on his supporters 54 minutes later to "fight like hell" for election integrity. The controversy ultimately led to the resignations of BBC CEO Deborah Turness and Director-General Tim Davie last year.

Trump must file the new version of the complaint by Monday. He is expected to focus on personal reputational harm and is still seeking $10 billion in damages. The BBC will have the opportunity to file a new motion to dismiss targeting the revised allegations.

Fox News Digital’s David Rutz contributed to this report. 

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RNC chair says Talarico's GOP crossover hopes are a 'pipe dream': 'Nobody is going to follow him'

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico needs to flip some Republican voters this November to win in the largest red state in the U.S., but his opponents are calling out claims of Republicans backing him as inauthentic, if not fraudulent.

"Any chance that Talarico has building any type of Republican coalition is a pipe dream for him," Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Nobody is going to follow him. He’s completely out of touch with Texans."

Gruters' rebuke came after women voters interviewed on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" claimed to be Republican crossover supporters, only to have longstanding ties to Democrats and anti-President Donald Trump groups – not exactly people that would be voting for Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton in one of the Senate's biggest ticket races in the battle for the majority.

"The people that he had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat, liberal activists that have been supporting Democrat candidates for 10-plus years," Gruters continued.

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"I just don't believe it," Gruters said. "This is Kamala Harris' 'White Dudes for Kamala.' It just doesn't exist. It's a wannabe or an attempt at them to try to build some crossover support."

Talarico has emphasized building a broad coalition in his campaign, which says it intends to "go everywhere and talk to everyone" ahead of the November election.

But Republicans have seized on the political histories of some of Talarico's backers as evidence the outreach is less bipartisan than advertised.

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One of the women presented as a Republican mother supporting Talarico was identified in subsequent reporting as Mindy McClure. She has Federal Election Commission filings associated with her showing repeated ActBlue contributions benefiting Democratic candidates and political groups dating back to 2018, including Kamala Harris and The Lincoln Project – an anti-Trump political activist group.

"When you have policies like mutilating children, saying that God has six different genders and is non-binary and all this other stuff, you can't expect that Republicans are going to hop on and think that they're going to be on board to this liberal clown show that he's operating down there in Texas," Gruters said.

The primary-voting history of another woman featured in the campaign’s outreach was exposed by a record showing more participation in Democratic than Republican primaries.

When reached for comment Sunday, the Talarico campaign said the women have no official ties to the campaign, but the spokesperson pointed to the MSNBC interview, noting they had previously voted for Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott – one of which vowed to never do again.

Talarico has also showcased the support of former Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, a longtime Republican who endorsed the Democrat at a recent campaign event.

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Whitley ran as a Republican judge, but his recent endorsements are on the left. The former county judge endorsed Democrat Mike Collier against Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in 2022 before backing Harris for president and Democrat Colin Allred for U.S. Senate in 2024. All those Democrats lost to Republicans, as did Beto O'Rourke to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by less than three points in 2018.

That history has given Republicans an opening to argue that Talarico is largely attracting voters who had already broken with GOP nominees before the current Senate contest.

"He's not Beto: Beto was actually a decent candidate, as liberal as he was," Gruters said, delivering his oft-used moniker to Talarico for his "freakish" policy positions in a campaign for Senate in the deeply conservative state. "This guy makes Beto look like a conservative.

"Tala-freako has no chance, because people aren't buying into the stuff that he's peddling."

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Texas is famously a state that Trump says votes on "God, guns and oil," so the RNC chair says those not on board with Trump or those staples are "not the right candidate for Texas" and "not the right candidates for the U.S. Senate" in the state.

"We don't need weak members," Gruters said. "We need strong MAGA warriors. And that's exactly what Ken Paxton will provide is he will bring: strength to the U.S. Senate on behalf of Texas and will represent them well."

Paxton survived a potential Texas state impeachment effort just about three years ago. Two of those Republican Texas State House impeachment managers that voted to impeach Paxton in an attempt that died in the state Senate are now campaigning for Paxton.

Republican State Rep. Jeff Leach introduced Paxton at an Allen, Texas, campaign rally last week, and state Rep. Briscoe Cain introduced Paxton at a Houston rally. Both are backing Paxton over Talarico.

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There had been some concern Paxton – endorsed by Trump – was not an ideal GOP nominee, having ousted sitting Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who was a four-term senator and won by nearly double digits in 2020. Cornyn was "a great U.S. senator for a long time," Gruters admitted, stopping short of saying whether Cornyn will stump for Paxton like those impeachment managers that have come home for him.

Fox News Digital reached out to Cornyn's office for comment.

"I think he is raising money right now for all the Republicans in the Senate, still hosting events, and so I don't know personally if he's come out and endorsed Ken Paxton yet, but I'm sure that he is still on board with making sure that we have the MAGA warriors in place to support the president's agenda moving forward," Gruters said.

The Trump endorsement is not undefeated in marquee Senate races, as Herschel Walker (Georgia) and Dr. Mehmet Oz (Pennsylvania) lost in 2022 despite Trump's backing, but those key losses were by non-politicians that do not have Paxton's state-wide campaign infrastructure.

"You got to remember Ken Paxton won this state a couple of times in the general," Gruters added. "He won a primary against a strong incumbent [Cornyn] that's been there for a long time by a couple hundred thousand votes."

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Paxton told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" on Sunday that he has "outraised every Republican in the country," but he urged the Senate Leadership Fund – which has long-running ties to Senate incumbents like Cornyn – now-conservative billionaire Elon Musk and Trump's $800 million MAGA Inc. coffers need to help him keep the Senate seat.

"I'm trying to raise money during the summer in Texas, which is challenging, so we're hoping the Senate Leadership Fund, Elon Musk, President Trump come in now because we're trying to accumulate," Paxton told host Maria Bartiromo. "We're raising money for October right now and September, not now.

"We don't have the money for now. So that's allowed [Talarico] to just keep advertising that he's a moderate Democrat when he's, in reality, a socialist."

Despite long-running Democrat hopes and tens of millions of campaign spending to flip Cruz's seat, Gruters predicted this Paxton-Talarico race would not be the biggest dollar one of this cycle – that will wind up being North Carolina, he said.

"People want this race to be the biggest race in the country, but it really won't be because, at the end of the day, Paxton has proven time and time again that he's a winner – he's a winner in this state," Gruters said amid slow-moving funding for Paxton's campaign against the big Talarico Democrat dollars.

"Texas is ruby red. It's not going to go left and vote for somebody who wants to mutilate children, put boys in girls locker rooms and who, you know, says he has faith on Sunday then goes woke on Monday. It's just not going to happen. Texas is a hardcore Republican state.

"And so, yes, listen, a lot of money, Texas is a massive state, a lot of resources from California are pouring in because these California liberals like Tala-freako. But I don't think it's going to help him at the end of the day. Paxton is going to win this race."

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