George P. Bush

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dominated in his race against Land Commissioner George P. Bush, yet another sign that voters are willing to overlook the ...

“I’m proud of my family’s contributions to Texas and America,” Bush said in a campaign ad pushed out earlier this month. From Day 1 of Bush’s campaign, he’s sought to set himself apart from his family, handing out at his announcement party red koozies with a sketch of Trump shaking his hand and saying, “This is the only Bush that likes me! This is the Bush that got it right. “Help me end the Bush Dynasty,” a Paxton campaign ad reads, with photos of himself and Trump opposite to photos of Bush and his father with the caption “Choose a side.” The Democratic candidates for attorney general have made the same case, hoping to finish what Nelson started. Paxton, the state’s top law enforcement officer, denied all wrongdoing.

As George P. Bush has run for Texas attorney general, his family's storied political dynasty has proven to be a heavy weight in a party now in thrall to a ...

But others say Bush genuinely holds views to the right of his famous family members. Fool me twice, shame on me’ to Texas voters who feel like they’ve been fooled by Bushes quite a few times,” he added, quoting a proverb that the former president famously flubbed. For eight years when George W. Bush was in the White House, his ranch in Crawford served as a presidential getaway. George P. Bush ran with 100 percent name recognition, but the name was among his biggest weakness, according to political observers in the state. In 2000, George P. Bush — then 24 and about to enter the University of Texas Law School — recorded a Spanish-language ad for his uncle’s presidential campaign. The world changed.” “The Bush brand is not what Republican base voters are looking for right now,” Miller said. “It’s not like [George P. Bush] was some Bush third cousin, or the rebel in the family. He’s playing a role he’s got to play in order to win. I think he’s more that way than Jeb and W.” Texas has been the Bush family’s adoptive homeland ever since 1948, when George H.W. Bush, a Connecticut blue blood, senator’s son, combat pilot and Yale graduate, moved with his wife and young son to the Midland oil fields. He appeared on Real America’s Voice, the right-wing video network that’s home to former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, to support adding more prosecutors to pursue voter fraud.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, fended off a primary challenge from Texas Land Commissioner George P.

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(AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put his job and ability to withstand legal troubles on the line Tuesday in a Republican primary runoff against ...

El procurador de Justicia del estado, Ken Paxton, ganó la nominación del Partido Republicano para buscar ser reelecto en su cargo en la elección del 8 de...

Paxton, quien fue electo en 2015, derrotó en una segunda vuelta a George P. Bush por la nominación de su partido. Update: Este reporte fue actualizado a las 11:24 p.m. del 24 de mayo para agregar resultado de la elección primaria del partido demócrata Update: Este reporte fue actualizado a las 11:24 p.m. del 24 de mayo para agregar resultado de la elección primaria del partido demócrata

Tuesday's primary runoff election in Texas will test how much weight the Bush family name still carries in America's biggest red state in the race for ...

Tuesday's primary runoff election in Texas will test how much weight the Bush family name still carries in America's biggest red state in the race for attorney general. Bush forced a runoff against Paxton during a crowded four-way primary election in March. But he still trailed Paxton by 20 points in the March election, underscoring Paxton's continued political durability in Texas. Speaking in Austin after casting his ballot, Bush says the election is "about doing the right thing and supporting the right people for the right offices."

In the Republican runoff for attorney general, incumbent Ken Paxton—not to mention Donald Trump—got his wish.

Politics is tribal—and nowhere more so than in the malarial jungle of the GOP. Paxton bet that his bona fides as a tireless combatant in the culture wars, as an enemy of the libs, would matter more than his personal conduct. Rather than run from his alleged crimes and ethical lapses, he fashioned himself a martyr—it was him and Trump against the world. P. had entered the race against Paxton after a lifetime of speculation about his ultimate political ambitions—a whiff of entitlement that Paxton tried to call attention to. There’s been no Nixonian “I am not a crook” speech for the Texas AG. Paxton recently told Fox News that his legal troubles were the result of “the people I’ve taken on—the Biden administration, big tech.” This is absurd. In brief: the incumbent’s pending-for-seven-years criminal indictments for securities fraud, a federal investigation into corruption and bribery alleged by a half dozen of his top aides, and Paxton’s investigation into the state bar’s apparent investigation of him—not to mention that $1,000 Montblanc pen he allegedly boosted from another attorney. Or the son of pro-immigrant Jeb and Mexican immigrant Columba musing to a Fox affiliate about arresting “illegals”? Or the whole koozie episode? “It is a reality that he’s kind of the last [Bush] and they had big plans for him to be probably governor or president of the United States, and this was just a stepping stone,” he told Fox recently. He had to abide Trump’s humiliation of “low-energy” Jeb in the 2016 presidential primaries, while trying not to be humiliated himself by Trump. He had to persuade a hard-right Republican runoff electorate—a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the voting-age population—that it should trade Paxton, a no-apologies warrior for right-wing causes, for the fourth generation of an establishment dynasty. And so this is how the Bush dynasty ends: not with a bang but with a whimper. In the end, it was too much. Like Schrödinger’s cat, he had to be both Bush and not-Bush. Let’s give P. Bush this: he had a nigh-impossible task.