{"id":2250471,"date":"2024-05-22T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-abbot-campaigning-against-once-allied-republicans-in-an-effort-to-embrace-school-vouchers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:43:09","slug":"texas-gov-abbot-campaigning-against-once-allied-republicans-in-an-effort-to-embrace-school-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-abbot-campaigning-against-once-allied-republicans-in-an-effort-to-embrace-school-vouchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Abbott campaigns against former allies to support school vouchers"},"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%2Ftexas-gov-abbot-campaigning-against-once-allied-republicans-in-an-effort-to-embrace-school-vouchers%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=2250471&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>Governor \u2064Greg Abbott is prioritizing the election of candidates supporting his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hypocrisy-top-dems-including-biden-pelosi-oppose-school-choice-but-send-their-kids-to-private-school\/\" title=\"Hypocrisy: Top Dems Including Biden, Pelosi Oppose School Choice but Send Their Kids to Private School\">school voucher program<\/a> this cycle. Despite\u2062 his party&#8217;s majority strengthening and efforts for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">school choice<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-law-allows-anti-abortion-monument-at-arkansas-capitol\/\" title=\"New law allows anti-abortion monument at Arkansas Capitol\">proposal faced opposition<\/a> \u2064in 2023. Abbott \u200bnow campaigns\u2064 against party members against vouchers, making a significant impact on\u200b Texas\u2064 politics. Campaign \u2063spending and outside\u200c influences have marked this election cycle significantly.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/greg-abbott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Greg Abbott<\/a>\u2019s top priority this election cycle is to help elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>candidates<\/a> who will support his creation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/school-vouchers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>school voucher<\/a> program.<\/p>\n<p>While Abbott\u2019s party bolstered majorities in both chambers and he called special sessions to discuss school choice, the proposal was repeatedly shut down in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Abbott is campaigning against members of his own party who are against school vouchers. During the Republican primary in March, Abbott helped defeat seven incumbents and is promoting candidates in support of his agenda in runoff races next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just so unusual for an incumbent governor to campaign against members of his own party,\u201d John Colyandro, a Texas lobbyist and former top aide to Abbott, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/22\/texas-republican-primary-school-vouchers-choice-00159219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>. \u201cHe was the pivot around which everything turned here.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>During a typical election year, Abbott would spend around $500,000 for primaries, but so far this election cycle, the Abbott campaign is projected to spend around $11 million during the primary races, including $4 million on just the runoffs. Typically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Texas<\/a> state legislature races cost around $25,000, but this year it\u2019s averaging upward of $1 million \u2014 all thanks to outside special interest groups.  <\/p>\n<p>So far, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos\u2019s PAC, the American Federation for Children Victory Fund has spent $4.5 million on the races \u2014 accounting for nearly half of what the PAC promised to spend nationwide this election cycle. The PAC has helped knock off ten of 13 anti-school-choice lawmakers from winning their race or now are forced into a runoff. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Pennsylvania<\/a> billionaire Jeff Yass, a major school-choice advocate, wrote a check to Abbott for $6 million.\u00a0In addition, the Family Empowerment Coalition PAC, which launched just in June 2023, is focused on promoting school-choice supporters from both parties and has dropped $1.4 million this election cycle. <\/p>\n<p>These PACs have focused their efforts on distributing mailers, texts, and advertisements that aren\u2019t necessarily focused on school choice but instead attack Republican incumbents for not truly being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>conservative<\/a> \u2014 a move that is often misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Glenn Rogers, who lost his primary to an Abbott-backed challenger, was accused in mailers paid for by Libertarian PAC Make Liberty Win that he was \u201canti-gun\u201d and warned that \u201cif we don\u2019t vote Rogers out, he will only drift further left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you tell a lie often enough, it becomes truth to a low-information voter,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cUnfortunately we have a lot of low-information voters. That doesn\u2019t have anything to do with their mental ability, it has to do with them keeping up. Eventually, it becomes true in their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Abbott\u2019s estimate, the Texas House has 74 votes in favor of school-choice based on those candidates that won their primary race and those that reached a runoff. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>governor<\/a> is still just two House votes away from passing school vouchers in Texas.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Abbott&#8217;s main goal this election is to back candidates who back his school voucher initiative. Despite his party strengthening majorities and holding special sessions for school choice talks, the plan faced rejection in 2023. Now, Abbott is opposing lawmakers who opposed his voucher plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2250472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24035733816155-1024x693.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24035733816155-1024x693.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250471","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\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}