DRIPPING SPRINGS — When Chip Roy entered the already-crowded GOP attorney general race last year, the Austin congressman thought he could exercise the frontrunner’s privilege to stay out of any negative campaigning.
“I was just trying to run [ads like], ‘I’m Chip Roy, here’s my background, here’s my experience, here’s why I should be attorney general,’” he told a crowd of supporters at a barbecue restaurant Sunday.