{"id":368404,"date":"2025-11-10T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/368404\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T04:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:25:12","slug":"gov-greg-abbott-launches-reelection-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/368404\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Greg Abbott launches reelection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy<\/a>, and give us feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a> on Sunday launched his campaign for a fourth term as governor, framing his pitch to a crowd of hundreds in Houston as a means to maintain Texas as a \u201cbastion of common sense in a country reeling from far-left, progressive insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is not just another state \u2014 it\u2019s our home. Our heritage,\u201d Abbott said in his speech. \u201cAs Texans, we will defend this state with every fiber of our being. We will protect what we built, finish what we started and lead Texas into its glorious future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both reflecting on his decade as governor and previewing his priorities for a fourth term, Abbott touted a series of conservative achievements in affordability, education, border security and more.<\/p>\n

A week after Texas voters approved several constitutional amendments to reduce property taxes, Abbott vowed to go further to rein in local taxing power through a slate of five policy proposals he unveiled Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal governments are hiking your property taxes incessantly,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to drive a stake through the heart of local property tax hikes for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said voters should be allowed to vote on abolishing school property taxes and that any property tax increases should require two-thirds approval from voters. He added that Texans should have \u201cthe right to rollback property tax rates\u201d; appraisals should take place only once every five years; and that the appraisal cap \u2014 the amount the appraised value of a property can increase by year over year \u2014 should be dropped from 10% to 3%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abbott also promoted the passage of private school vouchers, public school funding and measures abolishing diversity and inclusion practices in schools and barring trans athletes from participating in women\u2019s sports \u2014 arguing that these efforts were putting Texas on the path to become the top state for education.<\/p>\n

And he listed off stricter bail practices, the state\u2019s border and immigration crackdown and various investments and regulation cuts in health care and housing as other banner achievements of his tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have in Texas is precious. But it can all be destroyed in one bad election,\u201d he said, arguing that Democrats were bought by billionaires and, if elected, would \u201ccrush your economy, destroy your jobs, and increase your taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, we have a message for Democrats and their socialist backers: This is Texas,\u201d he said.
\u201cWe will defend our culture, and we will safeguard our Texas values, from the radicals who are trying to shove our state to the left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abbott heads into this election cycle with almost $90 million on hand, a staggering war chest for any challenger to overcome. He broke records last year in accepting $10 million from Pennsylvania GOP megadonor and voucher advocate Jeff Yass, whose initial $6 million donation to Abbott was the largest single political donation<\/a> in Texas history.<\/p>\n

State Rep. Gina Hinojosa<\/a>, D-Austin, businessman Andrew White and rancher Bobby Cole are running for the Democratic nomination to take on Abbott.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a decade in the governor\u2019s mansion marked by numerous conservative political and policy wins, the once-restrained governor has transformed<\/a> into a partisan warrior closely aligned with President Donald Trump and more willing to embrace<\/a> a scorched earth politics<\/a> to achieve his aims.<\/p>\n

Abbott managed to push through his top priority \u2014\u00a0private school vouchers \u2014 this legislative session after spending millions in the 2024 primaries to oust anti-voucher Republican incumbents in the Texas House.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This summer, under pressure from Trump<\/a>, Abbott placed mid-decade congressional redistricting on the special session agenda, eventually signing into law a new map that looks to give the GOP five additional congressional seats in next year\u2019s midterm.<\/p>\n

For both those efforts, he and Republican lawmakers won kudos from Trump.<\/p>\n

Abbott has also indicated he will direct a significant amount of his funds to flipping Harris County red \u2014\u00a0up and down the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Texans, and in 2026 we will remind the whole world that the spirit of Texas will never be broken,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cWe will defend this great state. We will leave our children and grandchildren a Texas that is safer, stronger, freer and more prosperous than ever before. So tonight, join me in this fight. Let\u2019s keep Texas, Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":368405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[90,5026,4345,358,3187,168943],"class_list":{"0":"post-368404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-greg-abbott","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-well-a-homepage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115523506918369655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}