Posted on 05/24/2022 8:56:18 AM PDT by RandFan
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is expected to fend off a challenge on Tuesday from fellow Republican George P. Bush in a primary run-off election that has pitted a Trump ally against the scion of two former U.S. presidents.
Paxton has consistently led in polling in his re-election bid for a third term, though surveys have tightened in recent weeks. He beat out Bush, the state's land commissioner, for former President Donald Trump's endorsement, despite a longstanding securities fraud indictment and other legal woes.
The Bush family name was once all-powerful in Texas politics. George P. Bush is the son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and the nephew and grandson of former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush.
But the younger Bush's underdog status highlights a remarkable shift within the state's Republican Party over the past decade, with the center of power moving from the business-friendly wing squarely into the social conservatives' camp.
That largely explains Paxton's appeal even amid his 2015 indictment on securities fraud that's still playing out in the courts, and reports that he is under an FBI investigation after four former staffers in the attorney general's office made accusations of bribery and abuse of office.
Paxton has maintained his innocence in the securities fraud case. His office did not respond to requests for comment about that case or the reported FBI probe. The FBI declined to comment.
Bush has hammered away on the allegations against Paxton. Bush told Texas Public Radio earlier this month that his campaign was about "making sure we don't have indicted felons serving at the top of the chain of command of our law enforcement officials here in Texas."
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I’ll be voting for Paxton after work this evening.
“George P...is just like all the rest of them...FRAUDS, LIARS, AND BUTT KISSERS...”
But I heard he makes a mean guac.
yep, at 7:45 this morning.
No more bushes....
Don’t play in the Bush...... you’ll get bitten by either a RINO or a snake.... er.. I mean a democrat
Sums up my attitude about Paxton.
Voted for P today.
Paxton!
I’m voting today for Paxton.
I’ve told George P a few times he needs to go home to Mom and Dad bc he is no Texan, and will never be accepted
as one, especially after his mangling of the Alamo issue.
Of COURSE Paxton has indictments. He’s a non-Bush Republican.
George P., you have a rich family that long ago exhausted all political good will.
Take some of that money, and find a business you like, and live a good life. If you don’t feel like actually working, invest conservatively and have a pretend job (see Hunter Biden) so that your wife and children think you work. It’s okay. Texas doesn’t need your assistance.
Ask Tom DeLay and Scooter Libby how this works.
I’d vote for Satan himself over a Bush.
Looking forward to his concession speech tonight. Hope his useless Daddy is there, too.
Voted Paxton in early vote. No Bushes here ever again.
Of course - I voted Paxton this morning...
Voted against both of them last month but I lost.
The only Bush I like is Jenna’s. I think she is probably the most conservative of the bunch.
I don’t like Jenna at all. She bugs me. Haha! Totally sucks up to Michelle Obama and the rest of the libs.
I see what you did there...;)
Yep!
I don’t like either one of them but it can’t be another Bush.
So I’ll go vote now.
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