Abbott, the Republican incumbent, touted the state’s prosperity but provided few details on what he wants to accomplish in four more years as governor.
As UT-Tyler’s Bryant noted, Abbott committed some gaffes.
Some longtime Abbott advisers said he once again heeded a time-validated “Rose Garden” strategy, in which incumbents grant challengers as few debates as possible, avoid media scrums and appear in public in controlled settings. Abbott “failed us” by doing nothing to avert school shootings, high property taxes and the catastrophic failure of the state’s main electric grid last year, O’Rourke said. The Democrat pledged to attack those problems, “pay our teachers” and restore women’s ability to decide whether to have an abortion.Abbott’s closing spot returned to footage of.
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