Ken Paxton endorses Aaron Reitz over Chip Roy for Texas AG bid

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday endorsed Aaron Reitz, his former deputy attorney general for legal strategy, to replace him in the statewide office as he runs for the Senate, days after Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) launched his bid to become Texas’s next top prosecutor.

This was Paxton’s first time weighing in on the attorney general race. Both Republican candidates previously served under Paxton, but Roy has been outspokenly critical of the incumbent attorney general since he stopped serving as Texas’s first assistant attorney general.