Texas MAGA battle ends with Middleton victory as Chip Roy falls short in AG Race
A Republican state senator who spotlighted his support for President Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda is one step closer to succeeding Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general.State Sen. Mayes...
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A Republican state senator who spotlighted his support for President Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda is one step closer to succeeding Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general. State Sen. Mayes Middleton on Tuesday defeated Rep. Chip Roy , one of the most conservative members of the U.S. House, for the Republican attorney general nomination in Texas, the Associated Press reports. The ballot-box battle between Roy and Middleton, the president of an independent oil and gas company, turned bitter and expensive, and partially became a test of which candidate was more of a fighter for Trump and his America First and MAGA movements. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB Middleton, who edged Roy in the March primary, dished out roughly $17 million of his own money to back his campaign. But Roy, a former Texas assistant attorney general and former chief of staff to conservative Sen. Ted Cruz , received a late surge in fundraising from major backers. "We've gotten the financial support necessary to compete with my self-funder opponent, who's got his inheritance money that he can just spend," Roy highlighted in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the runoff. Roy argued that Middleton's lack of courtroom experience would make him a poor attorney general. "Having been the first assistant attorney general makes me ready on day one, but it's also that I've been a prosecutor, I've been in court, I've sat in front of a judge, stood in front of a judge, argued cases, and he has never done any of those things. And we think those things should matter," Roy emphasized. TED CRUZ ENDORSES CHIP ROY FOR TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL: 'NO ONE BETTER' Middleton pushed back, questioning Roy's conservative credentials and running ads claiming Roy's "betrayed MAGA" as he pointed to the times the congressman has broken with Trump over policy. "Chip Roy is someone that has spent a decade fighting the president. He actually said President Trump committed impeachable conduct on…