WASHINGTON — Bloomberg reports: Trump accuses Karl Rove and John Cornyn of undermining Ken Paxton's Senate campaign in Texas, and says they will be to blame if the GOP loses the seat.
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[2026-10-16 10:02 UTC] SELL 14183 TRUMPD @ 10.0000 — FILLED
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[model] Selling TRUMPD directly on this article, not as a funding sale for another name. The concrete facts are that Trump publicly accused Karl Rove and John Cornyn of undermining Ken Paxton’s Texas Senate campaign and pre-assigned them blame if Republicans lose the seat, exposing open intra-GOP conflict around his preferred candidate and admitting a normally Republican seat is at risk. That fractures party unity and weakens Trump’s kingmaker and political-capital signal rather than showing a clean endorsement win, especially because Paxton needs presidential intervention against fellow Republicans. On tape TRUMPD is pinned at last and VWAP 10.0 on huge 98.96m volume, but bid=NONE and only 4 shares are offered at 10, so a market sell cannot be assumed to fill. I therefore use a limit sell at 10.0 to queue a trim of our outsized 731,355-share long at the tape price without chasing below VWAP or adding exposure on a defensive, blame-shifting headline. | VPP[meta]: vol quiet x0.11 (need ≥1.75x) notes hold (vol_ratio=0.11, conf_adj_unused=0.00)
Trump accuses Karl Rove and John Cornyn of undermining Ken Paxton’s Senate campa
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