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Home Front: Politix

Greg Abbott eyes a third term

2022-04-05

[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Gregory Wayne Abbott is attempting what only one other governor in Texas has done: win a third term.

But the 64-year-old incumbent, previously the longest-serving attorney general in state history, must first convince voters that he deserves another shot. To do that, Abbott is painting his state as a bulwark against national Democrats' agenda on border enforcement and economic policy as well as school curricula and ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion restrictions. It's this approach he hopes will help him beat out Democratic contender Robert Francis "Beto" O’Rourke;

...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
in November.

Speaking with the Washington Examiner at his office inside the Texas state Capitol in March, Abbott first emphasized the need to maintain Texas's economy, which would be the ninth-largest in the world by GDP if it were an independent country.

"There's obviously so many issues," Abbott said when asked about his priorities. "You address the issues that are before you at the time. And one thing that we want to focus on is Texas has pretty much the leading economy of any state in the United States. Goal No. 1 is to continue that process because that brings prosperity to everybody in this state."

The state's booming economy and the "Don’t Mess with Texas" individualism responsible for it are, in fact, drawing people from other states. The 2021 Texas Relocation Report, which tracked the arrival of new residents in 2019, found more than 500,000 people moved to Texas in each of the last seven years. That was before the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic, which led even greater numbers of West and East Coast residents to migrate down south. Texas was among the first states to ban vaccine requirements and oppose mask mandates. Texas was the second-most moved-to state in 2020, after Florida, according to Move.org. Despite being the second-most moved-to and moved-from state in 2021, it gained more people than it lost and is expected to surpass 30 million residents in 2022.

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