Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke easily defeated their primary opponents on Tuesday night, setting the stage for what could be the biggest battle for Texas governor in nearly 30 years.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke easily defeated their primary opponents on Tuesday night, setting the stage for what could be the biggest battle for TexasAbbott outdistanced his seven GOP primary opponents, which included spirited but underfunded challenges from former Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West and former state Sen. Don Huffines. The Associated Press called both races just an hour after the polls had closed.
West and Huffines both tried to make the race a referendum on how Abbott managed the pandemic and the Texas border under his watch. Both argued that Abbott went too far in mandating restrictions on businesses and people during the early months of the pandemic and hadn’t done enough in his seven years to make the border more secure.
“David just had three stones. But he had heart,” West said in an interview on Monday as he tried to rally voters to the polls. He said he has little doubt his campaign pushed Abbott to move rightward. He said he’s certain Texas never would have passed some of the new gun laws, abortion restriction laws and beefed up its border presence if Abbott hadn’t faced a stiff challenge in the primary.
“We’ve created an economic juggernaut,” Abbott said during his speech in Corpus Christi. “More Texans have jobs today than ever before in the history of our great state.”
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