Simple dynamic text issue

For some reason I can't get the % symbol to append to the end
of the dynamic text output. I've tried every variation of the code
I can think of. The percentage in numbers shows fine, I'm ammending
someone else's movie so it's not done the way I would normally do
it.
The attached code is the basic code before my modifications.
Thanks

Then there is something else going on. Except for the space
between mText_txt and .text, that should work.

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Ok.. After some resarch I find out the guy who created this made use of the Twitter API.. Since I don't know how to do that and
can't find straight answers that's not an option for me...
Althought...
What I forgot to mention in the first post:
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