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Meet the candidates for Texas attorney general on Nov. 8 ballot. Eleanor Dearman. October 23, 2022 at 6:00 AM. Eric Gay/AP. Ken Paxton. Political Party: Republican. Did not respond.
The 2022 Texas Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Texas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton won re-election to his third term. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Paxton won 233 counties and won the popular vote by a margin of 9.7%, underperforming Governor Greg Abbott 's concurrent bid for re ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Paxton has been a vocal supporter of Trump who spoke at the former president’s rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, and attended his election night party ...
Receiving 17,280 of the 26,607 ballots cast in the race, Ellis will move on to face Republican John Messinger, with the Office of the State Prosecuting Attorney, during the November general election.
The 2024 United States attorney general elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the attorneys general of ten U.S. states. The previous elections for this group of states took place in 2020 , while Vermont 's attorney general was last elected in 2022 .
In 2021, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an 8–1 decision, holding that the Texas Attorney General does not have unilateral authority to prosecute election code violations. [25] All three incumbent Judges up for re-election were part of the majority decision.
Earlier this year, Trump himself said that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton would make a good candidate for attorney general. Paxton joined state attorneys general who launched a failed attempt ...
The attorneys general of the Republic of Texas and the first four attorneys general under the 1845 state constitution were appointed by the governor. The office was made elective in 1850 by constitutional amendment. The attorney general is elected to a four-year term. In 2013, former Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he would not seek ...