Beto O’Rourke is expected to paint Greg Abbott’s signing of a law that banned nearly all abortions in the state as too extreme tonight during the gubernatorial debate. The law has only narrow exceptions to save the life of a patient.
and Department of Public Safety troopers to the border and providing additional funding to local officials in border counties seeing large number of migrants crossing through their jurisdictions.
Michael Adams, a political scientist at Texas Southern University, said the immigration issue could give O’Rourke an opportunity to launch into Abbott, particularly on some of the more controversial parts of the border mission, like the“This is a race where a choice between the two candidates could not be more clear. If you think about a Venn diagram, I’m not quite sure if there’s any overlap.
On the issue of abortion, O’Rourke is expected to paint Abbott’s signing of a law that banned nearly all abortions in the state as tooSylvia Gonzalez-Gorman, a political science professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, said Republicans, including Abbott, have struggled with some female voters since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down constitutional protections for abortion this summer and triggered into effect a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state.