Mayes Middleton CRUSHES Chip Roy in GOP Attorney General Primary
Texas State Senator Mayes Middleton has defeated U.S. Congressman Chip Roy in the Republican primary runoff for Texas Attorney General.
Middleton, the self-made oil and gas executive who branded himself “MAGA Mayes,” poured more than $16–17 million of his own money into the race and overcame Roy’s name ID advantage to win the nomination.
Middleton will now face Democrat Nathan Johnson in November as Republicans look to keep the Attorney General’s office firmly in conservative hands following Paxton’s Senate bid.
The race turned into a referendum on loyalty to President Trump and the MAGA agenda. Middleton hammered Roy for his past criticisms of the President, including Roy’s statement on the House floor that Trump had engaged in “impeachable conduct” related to January 6th.
Middleton ran hard on the fact that Roy had spent years fighting Trump instead of the radical left. Ads blasted Roy as a “backstabbing D.C. Congressman” who betrayed MAGA.
“Chip Roy is someone that has spent a decade fighting the president. He actually said President Trump committed impeachable conduct on the House floor,” Middleton told Fox News. “Instead of spending 10 years fighting President Trump, what have I done? I’ve spent 10 years fighting to defeat the left, which is what matters the most in this race.”
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