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Greg Abbott to Face Beto O’Rourke in Texas Governor Race After Main Wins
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Greg Abbott to Face Beto O’Rourke in Texas Governor Race After Main Wins

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published August 8, 2025
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This text was initially revealed  by The Epoch Occasions: Greg Abbott to Face Beto O’Rourke in Texas Governor Race After Main Wins

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will face Democratic former Congressman Beto O’Rourke within the November normal election for governor after the pair received their respective primaries.

Abbott, who obtained endorsement from former President Donald Trump and Texas Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton, simply received his celebration’s nomination for governor, as did O’Rourke, the state’s most outstanding Democrat, who’s searching for to change into the primary Democratic governor of Texas in practically three many years.

In line with a race name from The Related Press (AP), Abbott topped the 50 p.c mark he wanted to forestall a runoff, paving the way in which for him to hunt a 3rd time period in workplace.

Different gubernatorial candidates included businessman Don Huffines, who issued an announcement conceding defeat to the governor earlier than projected outcomes had been launched, conservative commentator Chad Prather, and former chairman of the Texas GOP Allen West.

The race was referred to as by the AP shortly after 8 p.m. native time, with the Republican governor holding practically 70 p.c of the vote with greater than 40 p.c of ballots tallied.

O’Rourke addressed his supporters in Fort Value, the place he flipped Texas’s largest crimson county whereas working in opposition to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.

“This group of people, and then some, are going to make me the first Democrat to be governor of the state of Texas since 1994,” he stated. “This is on us. This is on all of us.”

It marked the primary major of the 2022 marketing campaign.

O’Rourke introduced his run for Texas governor on Nov. 15, 2021, saying that he desires to make sure the state has a governor “that serves everyone, helps to bring this state together to do the really big things before us and get past the small, divisive politics and policies of Greg Abbott.”

“It is time for change,” he stated in an interview with The Texas Tribune.

O’Rourke additionally launched a 2020 presidential bid, however dropped out earlier than primaries started.

His marketing campaign video criticized Abbott’s “extremist policies around abortion, or permitless carry, or even in our schools,” claiming these insurance policies solely divide Texans and stop Texans from working collectively on the “truly big things.”

Abbott responded on his Twitter account on the time that O’Rourke desires to “impose socialism.” Abbott stated O’Rourke would defund the police, kill good-paying oil and gasoline jobs, permit open border insurance policies, help President Joe Biden’s insurance policies, and “take your guns.”

“From Beto O’Rourke’s reckless calls to defund the police to his dangerous support of the Biden Administration’s pro-open border policies, which have resulted in thousands of fentanyl deaths, Beto O’Rourke has demonstrated he has more in common with President Biden than he does with Texans,” Abbott marketing campaign spokesperson Mark Miner stated in an announcement. “The last thing Texans need is President Biden’s radical liberal agenda coming to Texas under the guise of Beto O’Rourke.”

The pair will now face off for the place within the Nov. 8 election.

Harry Lee and The Related Press contributed to this report.

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