Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a staunch Donald Trump ally and extremist right-winger, is jumping into a crowded 2022 primary election to unseat scandal-plagued state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s also a Republican. Trump has already endorsed Paxton, who is battling a criminal indictment charging securities fraud and a separate FBI corruption investigation. Gohmert has warned that Paxton’s legal problems could jeopardize the attorney general’s office for Republicans. Advertisement“We’ve got to have an attorney general that’s undistracted by moral and legal issues of his own and who can get elected a year from now,” Gohmert said early this month. The Democratic Attorneys General Association mocked news of Gohmert’s expected candidacy at the time, calling the burgeoning GOP field to unseat a Republican a “Texas-sized embarrassment for the Republican Party.”

Source: Huffington Post November 23, 2021 14:43 UTC