Paxton’s latest audio leak is making things tough for national Republicans

National Republicans have spent months trying to rescue Ken Paxton. He’s complicating that effort. Tensions are brewing with some Republicans after POLITICO published Paxton’s closed-door comments that “D.C.” Republicans were largely controlling his race . “He is welcome to raise his own money and say whatever he wants,” said one Republican involved in the Paxton rescue effort, who like others in this article was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “In fact, if he did that,…