Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke jumped to early leads and were expected to win their respective parties’ nominations for Texas governor without a runoff...
Firing the first salvos of the fall contest, Abbott said Democrats “have stoked fear mongering,” while O’Rourke called the incumbent incompetent, corrupt and cruel.
O’Rourke, the former El Paso congressman and presidential candidate, vaulted to an even more commanding lead over a five-candidate Democratic field. “We’re building a safer, smarter, freer and more prosperous state for everybody,” he said. “But we must fight to keep it that way. Because our opponents, they want a completely different Texas.”
But unless President Joe Biden can revive his own political fortunes, this year looks forbidding to a statewide Democratic candidate in Texas, he said. In his GOP primary, Abbott had plenty of advance warning that Huffines and West were gunning for him. Capitalizing on Democratic lawmakers’ quorum breaks over a bill they called “voter suppression,” Abbott held the Legislature hostage in Austin for much of last year and dribbled out agenda item after agenda item fervently sought by social and populist conservatives:
“You know you’re sort of grasping at straws on the right when you’re saying, ‘OK, we can’t hit him on abortion. We can’t hit him on transgender students, … election security, Second Amendment rights,” Jones said. He also leaned into his gargantuan fundraising edge. Since last July, a month he entered with $55 million in the bank, the incumbent has raised about $25 million.
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