It’s a heated race that, if George P. Bush doesn’t win, will take America’s most enduring political family out of elected office for one of the few times in the last 50 years.
George P. Bush, Republican candidate for Texas attorney general, speaks during a campaign event in Lakeway, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Bush, the grandson of one president and nephew of another, is hoping a famous name and his own ties tBut the doubts baselessly fanned by his rivals reflect the challenge he faces in winning over what has become the GOP mainstream, which has moved to embrace Trump even more closely since he left office.
"Most people in Bush world always thought of Jeb as the future and George P. as an understudy many years away from the main stage," said Reginald Brown, an attorney who has worked for Jeb Bush and former President George W. Bush, and is on the board of the former president’s library. But that, too, has become an attack among Bush’s rivals — that he is only out to climb the next career rung.
But the biggest hurdle for them both is Paxton, who has Trump’s endorsement and has shrugged off the ongoing investigation of his alleged corruption, dismissing hisBut behind the scenes the embattled Republican has taken the federal probe far more seriously, marshalling the resources of his office in ways that appear aimed at resisting and blunting its political impact.
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