Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) announced on Aug. 21 that he is running to become Texas attorney general.
If he wins, he would succeed Ken Paxton, who is running for the U.S. Senate.
Chip Roy Announces Run for Texas Attorney General
The U.S. lawmaker, who was first elected in 2018, has had a fiscally conservative record in Congress, often proving to be a thorn in the side of GOP leadership
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on March 5, 2025. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch Times
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
