Gubernatorially Absent With just over 50 days until the GOP primary, incumbent Greg Abbott has been skipping all of the Republican candidate forums. “He sees all this as beneath him,” says challenger Don Huffines.
Just over 50 days remain until the March 1 Republican primary, but the incumbent governor has been absent from the campaign trail. With well-funded opponents traveling the state and launching ad campaigns, GOP activists are wondering why Greg Abbott is ignoring their forums and questions.
Throughout the fall and now heading into the primary’s final stretch, Gov. Abbott has been absent from every single GOP and conservative candidate forum and refusing to participate in debates.
For example, forums scheduled this month by groups like the True Texas Project and the Republican Party of Brazos County feature the various candidates for governor – with the glaring exception of Mr. Abbott.
“There’s a general rule of thumb for incumbents during election season: Lay low and keep your mouth shut. That’s why they rarely show at candidate forums,” said True Texas Project leader Julie McCarty. “But what does that say about how they view their role in a representative government? And what does it tell us about their desire for accountability? To me it says, ‘I will do what I want, and you need to just shut up and vote for me.’ Sadly, low-info voters often submit without a fight. That is changing, but maybe Abbott hasn’t clued in.”
Gov. Abbott’s campaign staff did not respond to questions about his attendance at such forums.
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
According to polling released from Paradigm Partners, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Allen West has secured close to 40 percent of the support of likely primary voters for the upcoming GOP primary election in March. Support for Governor Abbott slid to roughly a third from a high of 56 percent in October of last year.
In a crowded field, the obvious choice for those who hope to see Governor Abbot unseated by a “Texas First” conservative outsider is Lt. Col. Allen West. Texas deserves true conservative leadership that will end the invasion at the border, stop the mutilation of children at the altar of gender dysphoria, and end the sex slavery crisis that is engulfing every part of Texas from our quiet border towns to the sprawls of Dallas and Houston. The working people of Texas and their children deserve to be safe, own their own home by transitioning from the Marxist property tax system, and be free from tyrannical overreach whether it comes from Washington, D.C. or Austin, TX.
Attached is a link to the polling data and methodology.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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