The Republican Attorneys General Association says 2026 has the most Attorney General seats up for grabs in over 30 years and their candidates are outperforming other top-of-the-ticket races being watched this cycle.
“We right now have nine states AG races, six Republican held, three Democrat held that are within two points,” said RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper.
“Republican Attorneys General candidates have historically outperformed various top-of-ticket races by 3 to 10 points.”
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Mr. Piper said this pattern holds in six states — Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas — where Republican nominees are significantly outperforming Republican U.S. Senate candidates.
In other states, where incumbent Democratic attorneys general are running for reelection, RAGA says their GOP nominees are up against “socialists and fraudsters.”
Mr. Piper said that New York Attorney General Letitia James “is a poster child for fraud where she’s running against an incredibly competent, wonderful Republican AG nominee Saritha Komatireddy.”
Mr. Piper ticked off other Democrat Attorneys General and nominees RAGA is targeting, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, who he said, “refused to prosecute [a] Democrat governor for a … pay-to-play scheme,” and Colorado’s Jenna Griswold, “a political hack who tried to throw Donald Trump off the ballot.”
Mr. Piper described Michigan Democrat Eli Savit, a county prosecutor who clerked for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as a “Bernie Sanders policy fellow” endorsed by Mr. Sanders and George Soros.
“We have… common-sense, tough-on-crime Republican candidates for Attorney General running against a series of Democrat AG socialist buffoons,” he said.
“We’re seeing two types of Democrat AG candidates. You have the socialists and you have the fraudsters.”
The Washington Times reached out to the Democratic Attorneys General Association for comment.
Minnesota voters may elect a GOP attorney general for the first time in 60 years, a recent poll shows.
Attorney Ron Schutz, a Republican, is facing off against incumbent Democrat Keith Ellison and has a slight edge in a KTSP poll showing him leading 45% to 43% with 12% undecided.
Mr. Schutz was an attorney and partner in the national law firm Robins Kaplan for nearly four decades. One of his major issues in the election is combating fraud.
Republicans say Mr. Ellison is facing scrutiny because Minnesota voters do not trust him and see him as part of the massive fraud scandal that recently emerged in Minnesota’s state government this past year.
“Keith Ellison went on a rant this week, because he’s down in some public polls, [and he talked] about Minnesotans being racist and bigots because they don’t understand his way of doing things,” Mr. Piper said.
“Well, his way of doing things is he has decided to aid and abet fraudsters who stole billions of dollars from money that was designed to help feed hungry kids and took the money and built mansions and villas and sports cars.”
Following the poll’s release, Mr. Ellison had responded, saying, “Let me just tell you, my last poll, I was down against my opponent by two points,” he said.
He continued, “I don’t know if it’s an accurate poll or not. I do know this: I take it seriously. And I hope you all take it seriously, too. Because this is what you call a base election. Do you know what a base election is? That means whoever gets out their base, that’s who’s going to win.”
“Now is the base of people who believe in freedom and justice, compassion and mercy. Will the people who believe in the equality of human beings, in the dignity of all human beings, show up and vote?”
He added, “Or will the bigots and the racists show up and vote? You know what I’m saying? Either we’re going to show up or they’re going to show up.”
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