AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton easily won Tuesday’s runoff election over Republican challenger George P. Bush, a sign that the incumbent’s mounting legal problems were of little concern to GOP voters.
Paxton led with a wide margin of victory that will push to the political sidelines the only member of the Bush dynasty currently holding public office.
Paxton, who steered ever rightward as he leapt from Collin County to the height of state politics, appears likely to face progressive South Texas Democrat Rochelle Garza in November’s general election. Garza, a former ACLU attorney and political newcomer, was leading former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski in Tuesday’s Democratic runoff, according to unofficial results.
