Texas Democrats criticized the governor’s proclamation as an attempt to suppress voters. “Republicans are on the verge of losing, so Governor Abbott is trying to adjust the rules last minute,” Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa said in a statement. “Courts all over the country, ...
The March 1 Texas primary marks the official start of the 2022 election season, and it’s also the first test of an incumbent GOP governor who’s facing a primary. But unlike other races in Georgia, Idaho and maybe even Alabama, Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t f
He said, "We're going to win in November, but we're going to win because we're not going to be complacent. People are going to stand up and fight. I said from the beginning, this is a real race and they're coming after Texas." Allred mentioned the tight polls at a re...
By:John Steed(More Entries) Following the lead of several European countries that have done so, Texas is deploying armored vehicles and National Guard troops to its southern border to stop the invasion by illegal alien migrants. This comes after Texas Governor Abbot invoked the Invasion...
Texas Senate race polls The race is competitive. The latest Real Clear Politics pollaverageshows Cruz leading Allred by about 4.2 percentage points. And the respected Cook Political Report has shifted the race from"Likely R" to "Lean R"— meaning the race is now con...
Department of Agriculture from using race, gender or other “socially disadvantaged” traits to determine who gets disaster and pandemic farm aid and how much, arguing the agency’s current administration of eight emergency funding programs is unconstitutionally discriminatory. “When natural disasters ...
Variations of language do not disrupt the patterns, the state powers to address insurrection. For example, the governor can call out the state militia and put down insurrection even where, as inSouth Carolina,Arkansas, orPennsylvania, the same section does not explicitly designate him “commander ...
California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom “must now appoint someone to the U.S. Senate ahead of next year’s election. He has long said he would appoint a Black woman if Feinstein did not finish her term, but herecently specifiedon ‘Meet the Press...
following Trump’s tracks. And huge margins in the preponderantly White and socially conservative rural strongholds, as well as incremental improvement among Hispanics, may indeed allow Republicans to hold the state in the 2020 presidential race and maybe the governor’s contest that follows in ...
Likely Democratic primary voters in California are about evenly split among the top three candidates – Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren – in the race for the Democratic nomination, while Texas Democrats tend to favor Biden, the nationwide frontrunner, according to new CNN polls con...