Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in dead heat with surging Democratic challenger [View all]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton leads Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza by only two percentage points among registered voters, according to the latest poll released Sunday by UT Tyler and the Dallas Morning News.
Paxton is polling at 34 percent to Garza's 32 percent, while eight percent said they support Libertarian candidate Mark Ash. Twenty-five percent said they support someone else or weren't sure.
The results of the poll indicate that Paxton has lost significant support from independent voters in just the past few months: 50 percent of registered independents polled said they disapprove of Paxton's job performance—a nine-point drop from independents' responses to the same question in May.
As Paxton's support with independents wanes, Garza continues to make inroads, staking out a five-point lead over Paxton among independents, according to Sunday's poll. These voters could be the deciding factor in the race for attorney general as they make up the largest chunk of undecided voters, the Dallas Morning News reported.
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