{"id":19232,"date":"2026-02-22T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-of-texas-gop-ag-hopefuls-agree-on-policy-but-clash-over-records-in-dallas-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:22:30","slug":"state-of-texas-gop-ag-hopefuls-agree-on-policy-but-clash-over-records-in-dallas-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-of-texas-gop-ag-hopefuls-agree-on-policy-but-clash-over-records-in-dallas-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Texas: GOP AG hopefuls agree on policy but clash over records in Dallas debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four candidates vying for the Republican nomination for Texas Attorney General &mdash; State Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, State Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas &mdash; agree on almost everything. However, that didn&#8217;t stop them from attacking each other on their records and experience during Tuesday night&#8217;s Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) debate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/5749507-state-of-texas-gop-ag-hopefuls-agree-on-policy-but-clash-over-records-in-dallas-debate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four candidates vying for the Republican nomination for Texas Attorney General &mdash; State Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, State Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas &mdash; agree on almost everything. However, that didn&#8217;t stop them from attacking each other on their records and experience during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}