At a time when newsroom resources and revenue across the country are declining, The Texas Tribune remains committed to sustaining our mission: creating a more engaged and informed Texas with every story we cover, every event we convene and every newsletter we send. Last year, former President Donald Trump carried Texas by more than five percentage points, despite national unpopularity and unprecedented Democratic fervor. By Steve Vladeck, professor at the University of Texas School of Law. But ORourke argued the measures did far too little, proposing that the state connect to the national grid, among other things. Poll conducted for the Defend Texas Liberty PAC. Everything we could possibly give to this campaign, we gave to this, he told the crowd at Epic Railyard Event Center, rattling off the advantages Abbott had from the outset of the campaign. Abbott won by about 10.9 points, a margin slightly larger than aggregate polling, but virtually in line with the last poll conducted. He did not share any specific policy choices to address abortion or reproductive health. In Texas, voters will elect officials for seven statewide seats governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, land commissioner, agriculture commissioner, O'Rourke's announcement kicks off a third With special guest Katrina Pierson! Those nominees will face off in the general election in November. Other parts of her platform include lowering property taxes and creating a more streamlined protest system, legalizing marijuana, increasing compensation for teachers, and working to restore Texas to pre-pandemic prosperity. Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during the Houston Region Business Coalition's monthly meeting on October 27, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Only 14 days remain for Texans seeking the state's highest office to officially file for the state's gubernatorial primaries and so far at least six have announced their candidacies for governor in 2022. As most governors serve four-year terms, the last regular gubernatorial elections for all but two of the seats took place in 2018 U.S. gubernatorial elections. Texas has not voted for a Democratic candidate for governor since Ann Richards in 1990. Greg Abbott for reelection", "Gov. Elections were held to elect senators from all 31 senate districts across the state of Texas. This election season, Texans around the state will turn to The Texas Tribune for the information they need on voting, election results, analysis of key races and more. Her platform also calls for more law enforcement at the border and inspections of all tractor trailers entering the country. They want to keep Texas a beacon of opportunity that we have provided over the past eight years.. ORourke officially launched his challenge to Abbott in November 2021, but the race had been long expected. Here are the candidates vying for Texas governor in 2022, Houston is in for dust and gray skies as Texas haboob arrives, Oops! Abbott also did well in the suburbs of the Texas Triangle, winning Brazoria, Galveston, and Montgomery counties around Houston; Comal and Guadalupe around San Antonio; Collin, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex; and Williamson in Greater Austin. Issues that were of utmost importance to voters, according to the polls, include immigration and border control, abortion and the state economy. Texas is one of 36 states electing their top executive officials during the 2022 midterm elections. Before the election, there were 28 Republican governors and 22 Democratic governors. Outside the Texas Triangle and Trans Pecos, the only other area O'Rourke won was the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley along the U.S. border with Mexico, but his performance was worse than Valdez's and his own from 2018, which continued the trend of rural Hispanic voters away from the Democrats towards Republicans, but did slightly outperform Biden from 2020. [1] All statewide elected offices are currently held by Republicans. The governor prevailed after a tumultuous period that included the pandemic, a statewide blackout, restrictions on voting and abortion and the Uvalde school shooting. The 2022 Texas gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Texas. Updated: Nov. 9, 2022. AUSTIN, Texas - Now that it is officially 2022, the race for the top spot in Texas is underway. Who a person voted for is not public record. We started this campaign in South Texas, we celebrated my primary victory in South Texas and tonight we return to South Texas to celebrate my being your governor for four more years, he said. On June 4, 2021, Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West announced his resignation as party chair. Greg Abbott makes it official: He'll seek reelection in 2022", "Belew plans run for Texas governor | Wise County Messenger", "Texas gubernatorial candidate Danny Harrison puts his platform in front of Bowie county patriots", "Meet the candidates for Texas governor in 2022", "Republican former state Sen. Don Huffines launches primary challenge to Gov. [6] On July 4, 2021, West announced that he would challenge Abbott in the 2022 gubernatorial primary. 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According to Cooper's campaign website, he says proper education for Texas youth is what drives him, adding that "Education and youth programs are the key to lowering crime rates, drug addiction, and homelessness. It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but its not funny to me, ORourke said. MCALLEN Greg Abbott decisively won a third term as governor of Texas on Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger Beto ORourke after a tumultuous few years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, a deadly power grid failure, new restrictions on voting rights and abortion and the Uvalde school shooting. A November 2021 poll of possible 2022 candidates for Texas governor found Greg Abbott to be the favorite among registered voters. FILE - Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks during a public impeachment hearing of President ORourke easily won his primary in early March, though Abbott faced a more competitive contest. Jesse Cerda, 46, said he wasnt much into politics before, but he supported Abbott for his abortion stance and believed he needed to make his voice heard with rising inflation. The ruling energized Democrats everywhere but had especially high stakes in Texas, where Abbott had already signed a trigger law guaranteeing an automatic, near-total abortion ban if the high court ever reversed the landmark decision. Horn says that she would secure the border by putting into action "measures that would close points of entry and protect the border with surveillance technology and law enforcement.". The spot featured a couple a Democratic wife and a Republican husband agreeing that the abortion ban was too extreme. It was a throwback to ORourkes go-anywhere campaign four years earlier. Find your county website here. Despite improving on 2018 nominee Lupe Valdez's margins in these counties, he did worse in all of them compared to his Senate campaign in 2018, and, excluding Travis and Hays, worse than Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race but that was chiefly because Greg Abbott had been much more popular than Donald Trump in the state. But at the same time Abbott started assailing ORourke on air, the Democrat was getting huge help from a new group called Coulda Been Worse LLC. News outlets are pushing everyone out who they believe is running for Governor or who they think should run. Poll conducted for the Democratic Policy Institute, a non-profit organization advocating for progressive causes. Abbott still ended the period with nearly twice as much cash on hand, but ORourkes haul made Democrats newly optimistic that he had a shot against the governor. He won the vast majority of counties, mostly rural, and by significantly wide margins. 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