Texas GOP clash: The clout of a Trump endorsement takes on the legacy of Bush family political dynasty
Fox News
Texas GOP Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are facing Republican primary challenges from the right. Paxton is being challenged mostly for his political baggage.
Paxton is being challenged by George P. Bush, the two-term Texas land commissioner and the last member of the Bush political dynasty – which over four generations has produced two presidents, a vice president, a senator, two governors and a congressman – as well as former judge and longtime Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01), who's known as a hard core conservative, and former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman.
All three challengers have been running to the right of the conservative Paxton, who’s known nationally for filing the unsuccessful Texas vs. Pennsylvania case in the Supreme Court that tried to overturn now President Biden’s razor-thin win over Trump in the Keystone State, and for speaking at the then-president’s rally near the White House that immediately preceded the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by right wing extremists aiming to disrupt congressional certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.