Democrat Rochelle Garza banks on anti-Paxton sentiment in Texas attorney general's race

Rochelle Garza talks on the campaign trail about her experience as a civil rights lawyer in South Texas, about advocating for a brother with disabilities, about fighting the Trump administration for abortion rights.

But what really gets the Democratic crowd revved is when Garza lights into her GOP opponent: Attorney General Ken Paxton.

“Paxton has never seen a crime he doesn’t want to commit,” she said during a recent luncheon at the Arts District Mansion in Dallas, drawing a chorus of laughter.

Yet what began with a joke ended with a dire warning as Garza ticked off the ways she said Paxton has failed Texans in the wake of last year’s deadly winter blackouts, the Uvalde school massacre and the state’s near-total ban on abortions.

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