The governor's ties to the state party are at an all time low, even as he seeks its help...
Two years of often open antagonism from his own party didn’t stop Gov. Greg Abbott from holding a splashy welcome reception on Thursday for the thousands of diehardThe top Republican used a 15-minute speech to fire up his base of support and push them to help him defeat Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the November election for governor.
The lesser role is a sign of how much relations have frayed between the two-term governor and his party’s most conservative party members as he campaigns for a third term. But the fact that Abbott was in Houston at all shows that he still needs the energy the party can bring for the fall election season.
The gathering this week is the first time Republican activists have met formally in person since 2018. Rinaldi set a tone on Thursday in an introductory speech where he praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, but never once mentioned Abbott. That’s a must-have as Abbott faces the toughest general election campaign of his political career in O’Rourke. Although the former El Paso Congressman lost to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018, he raised over $70 million and came the closest a Democrat has come to winning statewide since the 1990s. A poll released this week showed, with Abbott up by just five percentage points compared to 15 in December.
With Republican Primary voters, the governor won over 66 percent of the vote in defeating West and Huffines in November.
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