What they say they stand for
Their own words. Claims, not verified facts.
- Stopping what he calls the weaponisation of government against conservatives.
- Border security and action against cartels.
- Defence and technology investment, and positioning Texas to outcompete China.
- Cutting regulation, expanding small business opportunity and strengthening rural health care access.
- Election integrity.
- Free speech, and American leadership in artificial intelligence while protecting rural communities from data centre infrastructure burdens.
What they’ve actually done
Documented record from official sources.
- Founded and built a law practice from $10,000 in startup capital to more than fifty employees across seventeen states.
- Directed America PAC during the 2024 election, which spent roughly $300 million.
- Worked in national security at the U.S. Department of Justice; served as counsel to the Republican Party.
- Won a federal case over IRS targeting of conservative groups and a Supreme Court case for Senator Ted Cruz.
- Texas A&M graduate (2001) and Harvard Law School alumnus.
- Won the March 3, 2026 Republican primary.
- Has not held elected office.
Arguments in favor
The whole Republican leadership backed him out of a ten-candidate field: Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz — whom he represented in a campaign finance case he won at the Supreme Court in 2022 — and he raised more than $1 million.
— Endorsements reported by the Texas Tribune and Houston Public Media
He brings a specialist's command of election and campaign finance law, with degrees from Texas A&M and Harvard Law and a practice that included serving as chief lawyer to Elon Musk's super PAC.
— Chris Gober's campaign, reported by the Texas Tribune
Arguments against
His own testimony about Elon Musk's $1 million election giveaways showed the money was not awarded by random lottery, as Musk had said publicly, but handed to predetermined recipients.
— Robert Brown, his Republican primary opponent
He is one of the only Texas Republicans known to have played an instrumental role in the 2025 mid-decade redistricting that drew this very district — an effort "conducted so secretively" that its authorship is still unclear — and he did not answer questions about whether he remains retained by the RNC or how far he was involved in redrawing District 10's boundaries. He also represented Ken Paxton in the State Bar of Texas inquiry into Paxton's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential result.
— Democracy Docket
What we couldn’t verify
- He has held no elected office, so there is no voting record to set against his campaign's positions.
- His response to the redistricting questions was not established from the sources found — Democracy Docket reported he had not answered by publication.
- No criticism of him by name from Caitlin Rourk's campaign or from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was found.