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.
Fox News reported:
Roy conceded the race shortly after the results came in, saying he had called Middleton to congratulate him.
“Just a little while ago, I called and congratulated @mayes_middleton for his victory in our race for the Republican nominee for Attorney General. I will have a full statement tomorrow. Onward,” Roy wrote on X.
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.
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“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.
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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