All posts tagged "Greg Abbott"

Some of President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters are turning on a powerful Republican governor, with one flipping a common Trump attack against him.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is bleeding support from MAGA voters furious over his school voucher crusade and his embrace of massive data centers, New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg reported Friday.

Lynn Davenport, a lifelong conservative who attended Trump's rally in Washington on January 6, 2021, though she left before the Capitol riot, told Goldberg that Abbott is a "globalist, which to me is scarier than a communist, a socialist or a Marxist."...

A new New York Times/Siena polls show Democrats gaining across five red states since June. One of the biggest swings is in Texas, where Republican Gov. Greg Abbott now trails his Democratic challenger.

Political data analyst Adam Carlson posted a chart comparing the Times/Siena polls from June with the latest round, taken in late September and early October.

"Sheesh," Carlson wrote....

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) ties to Elon Musk show what happens when Republicans control every lever of state power, a legal analyst warned.

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang made the case in a Thursday video for her YouTube channel while interviewing Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic state representative challenging Abbott in November.

Phang pointed to what she called "a very suspicious, almost, I'd say, scratching of the back happening between Abbott and Elon Musk," citing state grants and tax breaks that have flowed to the billionaire's companies. She said Starlink received $110 million upfront from the Texas Broadband Office and that SpaceX landed a tax break shortly after Musk gave half a million dollars to Abbott's reelection campaign....

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is out with a new ad recruiting an unlikely ally to her cause: a woman who attended the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 6 that immediately preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"Greg Abbott is messing with Texas," said the woman, self-described MAGA conservative Lynn Davenport. "I was at the January 6th rally. I'm a staunch conservative, but I cannot support Governor Greg Abbott. Greg Abbott is bought and paid for by the billionaires and the corporations. Those are his donors, that's who he listens to. No more."

The ad stunned Jonathan Last and Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark, who tried to make some sense of it on their latest podcast....

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showered praise on the opponent of a Trump-endorsed Senate candidate, according to reports.

While calling in on Thursday to Sean Hannity's radio show, which was being guest-hosted by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), Cruz described Democratic candidate James Talarico as "charming" and "affable."

Cruz said Talarico, a state representative, has "a real chance" of beating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race to replace Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), according to reporting by the Texas Tribune....

A red state governor declared a disaster in hundreds of counties as the spread of a flesh-eating parasite poses an "imminent threat," according to local reporting.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced "a state of disaster" for all 254 Texas counties as New World Screwworm threatens the state's wildlife and livestock industry, according to Texas political reporter Brandon Waltens.

For the first time in decades, screwworm was found in U.S. cattle livestock earlier this week. The parasite is mostly a threat to cattle and beef prices, not humans, according to national reporting....