Gov. Greg Abbott again holds a seven-point lead over Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the Texas governor’s race, while scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton...
With a few breaks, though, such as a decision to stay home by GOP voters who say they probably will vote but aren’t sure, Paxton might get close to escaping a runoff, the poll found.
Three of the statewide races — Abbott and O’Rourke’s selection by their respective parties in the gubernatorial contest and incumbent Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s renomination by the Republican Party — are likely to be settled in those three men’s favor on election night, said UT-Tyler political scientist Mark Owens, the poll’s director. In a Texas primary, if you bag 50% of the votes cast, plus one, you avoid a runoff.
The marquee race this year, the governor’s race, has narrowed from January, when Abbott led O’Rourke in a hypothetical matchup by 11 percentage points, 47%-36%. Abbott’s lead over O’Rourke this month is 7 points, 45%-38%. While the GOP is pushing to expunge any teaching of critical race theory in classrooms, 59% of all Texas voters say they agree that K-12 teachers should be permitted to discuss how historical examples of discrimination in U.S. laws apply to racial inequalities today. The result in November was the same: 59% agreed with teaching past examples of discrimination.
Retired Flower Mound entrepreneur Maria Krehel, 59, is one. Though an independent, Krehel said she would support reelecting Abbott. Michael Jackson, 64, who lives in Houston’s Third Ward, though, said he strongly objects to state GOP leaders’ attempts to scare teachers away from discussing embarrassing topics such as the country’s permitting slavery to flourish and then, after its abolition, Jim Crow laws that required racial segregation.
Still, a border wall “is necessary, since there is no control of the border,” said Green, 64. “I live in the country. I have a fence to keep my cows and my animals in. But I also have a gate that I expect everyone to use when they come. I don’t expect somebody to just drive on my property.”On COVID-19, perhaps because new infections from the omicron variant have begun to decrease, the poll found a 5-percentage-point reduction in the number of voters who wore a mask in the past seven days.
Only 39% of state voters approve of Biden’s performance in his first year as president, with 57% disapproving.
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