Posted on 06/20/2021 7:44:46 AM PDT by cotton1706
In the race for the 2022 GOP nomination to be the attorney general of Texas, the incumbent is being investigated by the state bar association — and it may not hurt him. His main opponent is the grandson of one president who called Texas home and the nephew of another — and it may not help him.
The incumbent attorney general is Ken Paxton, and his challenger is Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (son of Jeb, nephew of George W, grandson of H.W.).
Republican strategist Jeff Roe calls the looming showdown between the two "the Holy War of Texas."
"We haven't seen a battle like this since the siege at the Alamo," Roe, who ran Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign, told Politico.
Paxton is a loyal Trump supporter and minor MAGA star, thanks to his role as an architect of a multistate legal effort to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election. He is facing a number of public scandals, including a 5-year-old indictment for securities fraud and an FBI investigation for corruption, which led to, among other things, the abrupt firing of some of Paxton's top aides last year.
Bush, the heir apparent to his family's political dynasty, is trying hard to distance himself from his family elders' public chilliness toward former President Donald Trump, to whom a significant portion of the Texas GOP electorate remains loyal.
Bush believes a change in the state AG's office is long overdue.
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No son of Jeb's will EVER enforce immigration law. For that just wouldn't be "an act of love."
Never EVER trust a Bush!
Stay out da Bushes!
Find out who humble’s voting for, and pick the other guy.
I respect the skepticism, but George P. has been a consistent supporter of PDJT.
Will this be like, the War of the Rose Bushes?
He’s a Deep Stater.
Nuff said.
Just like Judas Pence.
RINO. That was an easy question.
“I respect the skepticism, but George P. has been a consistent supporter of PDJT.”
His grandfather was also a consistent supporter of Ronald Reagan, until Reagan was gone, and then we needed a “kinder, gentler” America.
Every one of these people are trained to be treacherous pantywaists.
Reagan made a huge mistake.
Oh really?
Then why does he just happen to be trying to primary a MAGA guy?
Why is he not trying to oust a RINO? (like Cornyn)
Sorry, not buying it...
He continues to say things that support Trump. I have not seen him DO things that support Trump significantly. Nor have I seen him say or do things that reject the other Bushes. Maybe I just missed those.
“Reagan made a huge mistake.”
Reagan was forced by the Republican hierarchy to take Bush as his VP.
Didn’t Bush blow his chances of a MAGA alliance a few weeks ago by saying he thought Biden won the election fair and square?
Ken Paxton is a rt winger
The later, definitely the later.
Remember back in 2000 when W positioned himself as a true evangelical conservative unlike his patrician blue-blood father?
Flush TWICE on Bush.
Easy way to flush Shrub out.
Ask him if supports election audits, HR1, going back to dumb voting machines.
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