{"id":1353565,"date":"2022-03-01T21:52:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353565"},"modified":"2022-03-01T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:52:49","slug":"texas-gov-greg-abbott-wins-republican-primary-in-landslide-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-wins-republican-primary-in-landslide-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Wins Republican Primary in Landslide Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-gov-greg-abbott-wins-republican-primary-in-landslide-victory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353565&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/01\/donald-trump-endorses-texas-governor-greg-abbott-for-reelection\/\">endorsed<\/a> by former President Donald Trump, won the Lone Star State\u2019s Republican Primary, according to a projected victory from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-ap-news-alert-elections-texas-primary-elections-1001243a8735470abcb055b25472c2fc\">Associated Press<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.texastribune.org\/features\/2022\/texas-election-results-2022-primary\/\">Decision Desk HQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With almost half<b>\u00a0<\/b>of the votes counted by 9 p.m. Eastern, Abbott received at least 69\u00a0percent of votes (or 512,773), compared to top challenger\u00a0former Texas GOP chairman Allen West with 11.3 percent and former Texas state Sen. Donald Huffines with 11.7 percent<strong>, <\/strong>the <em>Texas Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.texastribune.org\/features\/2022\/texas-election-results-2022-primary\/\">reported<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Abbott succeeded in receiving at least 50 percent of the vote, thus avoiding a subsequent runoff election, per Texas state law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Abbott, who is running for his third term as governor, mostly focused his ire on Democrat challenger and failed presidential and U.S. Senate nominee Beto O\u2019Rourke. O\u2019Rourke won his Democrat primary, securing roughly 93 percent of the votes by 9 p.m. Eastern, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.texastribune.org\/features\/2022\/texas-election-results-2022-primary\/\">according<\/a> to Decision Desk HQ<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Pre-primary polling showed both Abbott and O\u2019Rourke as holding the most sway with their respective parties. The two will now face off in the November general election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19825978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236602737.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19825978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236602737.png\" alt=\"Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#039;Rourke speaks with members of the press at a campaign rally on November 16, 2021 in San Antonio, Texas. O&#039;Rourke drew a large crowd at his first campaign event since announcing his candidacy on Monday, November 15, for what could be a closely watched 2022 Texas gubernatorial race between O&#039;Rourke and Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott. (Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke speaks with members of the press at a campaign rally on November 16, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A recent Emerson College\/<em>the Hill<\/em> poll had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/texas-poll-gov-greg-abbott-holds-strong-lead-in-primary\/\">shown<\/a> Abbott with a commanding lead over his challengers, with the current governor garnering 61 percent of the vote. West received 12 percent and Donald Huffines received nine percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hill s<\/em>imilarly <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/595101-abbott-tops-orourke-by-7-points-in-new-texas-poll\">reported<\/a> in late February O\u2019Rourke is dominating the field with 68 percent support among primary candidates in the new poll, with no other candidate securing more than five percent. However, the poll showed Abbott leading O\u2019Rourke 52 percent to 45 percent looking down the line at the November general election.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Abbott received high marks from Trump when the former president bestowed his endorsement in the summer of 2021. Trump specifically called him \u201ca fighter and a Great Governor for the incredible people of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TgR8wGUx6Z\">pic.twitter.com\/TgR8wGUx6Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1399835335698362371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo Governor has done more to secure the Border and keep our communities safe than Governor Abbott,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreg is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment and has made Texas a Second Amendment Sanctuary State,\u201d the former president declared.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also noted, \u201cTexas has become a job-creating machine, and our partnership helped restore America\u2019s economic power and success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the Lone Star State\u2019s Republican Primary, according to a projected victory from the Associated Press and\u00a0Decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}