Animation Flickering when updating Tranform

I have a 2d animation which is 3 sprites long. It works fine on its own.

As I have moved forward, I added code to update the transform and now the animation is flickering.

This code is attached to the object.

I am running this on Windows 10
Unity version 2019.4.2f1 Personal

The issue happens both in game preview and in the Scene manager.

Code (CSharp):

1.  void Update()
2.     {
3.        float mousePos = Input.mousePosition.x / Screen.width * screenWidthInUnits;
4.        Vector2 paddlePos = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y);
5.        transform.position = paddlePos;
6.      
7.     }
8. }

If I comment out the last line like this the flickering goes away

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2.     {
3.        float mousePos = Input.mousePosition.x / Screen.width * screenWidthInUnits;
4.        Vector2 paddlePos = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y);
5.        //transform.position = paddlePos;
6.      
7.     }

I have attempted to google this with no luck.

If anyone wishes to try to run the code themselves I have it listed here on github as I am just using this as a way to learn Unity

https://github.com/StevenDStanton/Block-Breaker

 

try doing

Code (CSharp):

1.   Vector3 paddlePos = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y,transform.position.z);
2.        transform.position = paddlePos;

 

Thank you,

Converting it to the Vector3 solves the issue. I appreciate the help!