BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won reelection, besting Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, ABC News projects. Updates here:
, a former American Civil Liberties Union and defense attorney, made abortion access central to her campaign after Texas largely banned the procedure. Before running for office, she was likely best known for representing a 17-year-old migrant who successfully sued the Trump administration in 2017 to have an abortion while in the custody of federal immigration authorities.
She and Paxton never met for a debate, and their contest drew far less donor attention than Democrat Beto O'Rourke's challenge to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, despite the attorney general being seen as the more vulnerable incumbent.Paxton ran against Garza after besting a formidable field of primary opponents with backing from former President Donald Trump. The attorney general has kept the GOP base's support in the face of an uncommon array of controversies.
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