Greg Abbott vows to spend mightily to turn Harris County red [View all]
Two weeks before Election Day, Gov. Greg Abbott stopped by a barbecue joint in Harris County to rally voters, sharing his two goals for next year’s midterm election. The first is to win his own race, returning him to the governor’s mansion for a fourth term.
The second is to flip Harris County.
“I’ve got $90 million in my bank account, and I’m going to spend most of it in Harris County, Texas to make sure, precinct by precinct, we turn out voters who voted in the presidential election, turn out voters who never voted before,” Abbott said. “We got to win Harris County and make Harris County dark red.”
The county, where one in six Texans live, is critical to both parties’ statewide ambitions. It has been blue for about a decade after spending another decade as a massive purple county that voted for George Bush in 2004, Barack Obama in 2008 and again, just barely, four years later — but also kept popular Republicans in local offices.
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