{"id":1656854,"date":"2022-09-25T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656854"},"modified":"2022-09-25T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:53:59","slug":"greg-abbott-leads-beto-by-7-points-in-texas-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greg-abbott-leads-beto-by-7-points-in-texas-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Abbott Leads Beto by 7 Points in Texas Governor&#8217;s Race"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgreg-abbott-leads-beto-by-7-points-in-texas-governors-race%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=1656854&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Less than two months out from the November election, a new poll shows Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democratic challenger Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke by seven points.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of those surveyed listed the economy and border security as their top issues this election. The majority polled also expressed support for Abbott\u2019s border security effort, including busing people who illegally entered Texas to blue states and cities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new Spectrum News\/Siena College poll, Abbott leads O\u2019Rourke 50% to 43%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Abbott, who won a landslide thirteen-point race against Democratic challenger Lupe Valdez four years ago, has a seven-point lead with over six weeks until Election Day,\u201d SCRI Director Don Levy said in a statement. \u201cAbbott has the support of 95% of Republicans and O\u2019Rourke has the support of 93% of Democrats, while independents tilt toward Abbott by one point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, Abbott has a 47-46% favorability rating. O\u2019Rourke has a negative 39-52% favorability rating.<\/p>\n<p>The majority polled, 59%, said the economy\/inflation\/cost of living was the most important issue \u201cin determining the election.\u201d Among them, 75% of Republicans, 60% of Independents and 38% of Democrats said the economy is their top concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomic issues are by far the dominant election issues for all voters. Republicans overwhelmingly put economic issues in the top spot, and say immigration is the second most important issue affecting their vote,\u201d Levy said.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one percent of those polled list immigration and the southern border as their top concern, including 54% of Republicans, 27% of Independents and 6% of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The majority, 58%, also approve of Abbott\u2019s border security initiative, Operation Lone Star, with 93% of Republicans, 53% of Independents and 24% of Democrats supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>Another majority, 52%, expressed support for Abbott\u2019s busing strategy. Since April, he\u2019s bused more than 12,000 people to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago after they\u2019d illegally entered the U.S. in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Since the majority are likely ineligible for admittance according to federal immigration law, they are required to be detained, processed and removed. Instead, the Biden administration has been releasing an historic number into the U.S., prompting states to sue. In the meantime, Abbott and the governors of Florida and Arizona have been providing voluntary and free transportation to blue states and cities.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have expressed strong support for Abbott\u2019s busing initiative; 47% of Independents support it and Democrats overwhelmingly oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreats to our democracy,\u201d 30% of voters said, was the third-most important concern for them this election, with 38% of Democrats, 33% of Independents and 21% of Republicans saying it\u2019s a priority.<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats have been using the issue of abortion as their rallying cry to oust incumbent Republicans, only 22% polled said it was their top issue.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton are also leading in their races, the poll found. Patrick leads his Democratic opponent Mike Collier by 9 points, 49% to 40%. Paxton leads his Democratic opponent Rochelle Garza by 5 points, 47% to 42%.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 651 likely Texas voters from Sept. 14-18 and has a margin of error of 4.4%.<\/p>\n<p>According to a RealClear Politics average, Abbott leads O\u2019Rourke by 7.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two months out from the November election, a new poll shows Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democratic challenger Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke by seven points.The majority of those surveyed listed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1624647,"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-1656854","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\/1656854","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=1656854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}