Democrat Nathan Johnson flips Texas attorney general’s office

Texans elected a Democrat to serve as the state’s top lawyer for the first time in decades on Tuesday, flipping an attorney general’s office that had become a reliable conservative stronghold under outgoing Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Nathan Johnson, a Texas state senator from Dallas, is poised to become Texas’s first Democratic attorney general in 32 years after defeating Mayes Middleton.

Johnson earned 53.4 percent of the vote to Middleton’s 46.6 percent, with nearly all of the ballots counted as of Wednesday morning, according to Decision Desk HQ.

“This is a tremendous honor, and a tremendous responsibility,” Johnson wrote on the social platform X. “Texans voted for an attorney general who will represent them and the interest of our state, and who will above........

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