Chris Gober

Chris Gober is the Republican nominee for the open U.S. House seat in Texas's 10th District, an attorney and business owner who built a conservative election-law practice.[1][2] In 2024 he was director and chief lawyer of America PAC, a super PAC founded by Elon Musk that supported Donald Trump's presidential campaign.[1][2] His campaign website describes him as the Trump-endorsed candidate and lists border security, opposing what it calls the weaponization of government, and economic growth among his priorities.[1]

Gober is a seventh-generation Texan who was born and raised in the Texas towns of Throckmorton and Graham, according to his campaign website, and he now lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.[1] He graduated from Texas A&M University in 2001 and from Harvard Law School in 2004.[1][2] He worked on national-security and border-security issues at the U.S. Department of Justice and then served as a top lawyer for the Republican Party, according to his campaign website; his Ballotpedia survey response places the party role with the Republican Party of Texas.[1][2]

After returning to Texas, Gober founded a conservative law practice, which his campaign website says he started with $10,000 in savings and which, with his other businesses, now employs more than 50 people across 17 states.[1][2] He says he represented conservative nonprofit groups in a case against the IRS over its tax-exempt rules and won a ruling striking down the regulation, and that he won a U.S. Supreme Court case for Sen. Ted Cruz challenging a provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act.[1] He also says he helped establish the America First Policy Institute and helped deliver a Republican redistricting plan.[1][2]

In 2024, Gober served as director and chief lawyer of America PAC, which he says deployed nearly $300 million supporting Trump's presidential campaign; he also says he defended the PAC and Musk in lawsuits.[1][2] The Texan describes him as a former lawyer for Musk.[3] Gober has not previously held elected office. He won the Republican nomination outright in the March 3, 2026 primary, taking 51.25 percent of the vote in a 10-candidate field, according to Texas Secretary of State figures as of the next morning reported by The Texan.[3][2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.