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Line 64: − − Paxton won a second term as attorney general in the general election held on November 6, 2018. In a close contest, he defeated Nelson, 4,173,538 (50.6 percent) to 3,874,096 (47 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov06_331_state.htm?x=0&y=0&id=545|title=Election Returns|date=November 6, 2018|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 7, 2018}}</ref> −
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Meanwhile, Mrs. Paxton won the Republican nomination for the state Senate District 8 seat being vacated by Republican [[Van Taylor]] of [[Plano]], who is instead the GOP nominee for Texas' 3rd congressional district seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]]; that seat is held by the retiring long-term Republican, Sam Johnson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2017/09/06/angela-paxton-attorney-generals-wife-running-state-senate/|title=Angela Paxton, Texas attorney general's wife, running for state Senate|date=September 6, 2017|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref> Angela Paxton received 32,653 votes (54.4 percent); her intra-party opponent, Phillip Huffines, 27,421 (45.6 percent)<ref name=ereturns/> In the general election she faces the Democrat Mark Phariss while her husband runs for re-election against Justin Nelson. Phariss won his party nomination over Bryan Chaput, 51-49 percent.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Paxton won the Republican nomination for the state Senate District 8 seat being vacated by Republican [[Van Taylor]] of [[Plano]], who is instead the GOP nominee for Texas' 3rd congressional district seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]]; that seat is held by the retiring long-term Republican, Sam Johnson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2017/09/06/angela-paxton-attorney-generals-wife-running-state-senate/|title=Angela Paxton, Texas attorney general's wife, running for state Senate|date=September 6, 2017|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref> Angela Paxton received 32,653 votes (54.4 percent); her intra-party opponent, Phillip Huffines, 27,421 (45.6 percent)<ref name=ereturns/> In the general election she faces the Democrat Mark Phariss while her husband runs for re-election against Justin Nelson. Phariss won his party nomination over Bryan Chaput, 51-49 percent.
Paxton won a second term as attorney general in the general election held on November 6, 2018. In a close contest, he defeated Nelson, 4,173,538 (50.6 percent) to 3,874,096 (47 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov06_331_state.htm?x=0&y=0&id=545|title=Election Returns|date=November 6, 2018|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 7, 2018}}</ref>
==Motor voter issue==
==Motor voter issue==
Just three weeks before the 2018 general election, Paxton confirmed that voter fraud charges had been filed against four Hispanic women accused of participation in 2016 in an organized ring that focused upon elderly residents in the Fort Worth area to use those senior citizens to generate forged mail-in ballots, many of which were for Democratic candidates. Paxton accuses the women of "assisting" the senior citizens to monitor their choices of candidates or filling out the ballots and having the voter sign the mail-in ballot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/10/16/authorities-charge-organized-ring-with-voter-fraud-for-generating-forged-ballots-many-for-democrats|title=Authorities charge organized ring with voter fraud for generating forged ballots, many for Democratic candidates|publisher=Theblaze.com|accessdate=October 16, 2018|accessdate=October 18, 2018}}</ref>
Just three weeks before the 2018 general election, Paxton confirmed that voter fraud charges had been filed against four Hispanic women accused of participation in 2016 in an organized ring that focused upon elderly residents in the Fort Worth area to use those senior citizens to generate forged mail-in ballots, many of which were for Democratic candidates. Paxton accuses the women of "assisting" the senior citizens to monitor their choices of candidates or filling out the ballots and having the voter sign the mail-in ballot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/10/16/authorities-charge-organized-ring-with-voter-fraud-for-generating-forged-ballots-many-for-democrats|title=Authorities charge organized ring with voter fraud for generating forged ballots, many for Democratic candidates|publisher=Theblaze.com|accessdate=October 16, 2018|accessdate=October 18, 2018}}</ref>
==Indictment of African-American sheriff==
==Indictment of African-American sheriff==