Greg Abbott is running for a third term, while his challengers are vying to flip a position that has been held by Republicans since 1995.
This Election Day, Nov. 8, voters will decide who will serve as Texas’ governor for the next four years.
Abbott graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and then earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School. Before being elected governor, Abbott also served as Attorney General of Texas, a Texas Supreme Court justice and a state district judge in Harris County. During a gubernatorial debate in September, Abbott said his hands are tied when it comes to altering the law on so-called assault weapons.
In July 2021, Abbott signed the so-called "trigger law" which would ban all abortions from the moment of fertilization if the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, which happened this summer. The law makes an exception only to save the life of a pregnant patient or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function," but makes no exceptions for cases of rape, incest, or severe fetal abnormalities.
During the debate in September, O’Rourke pledged tighter gun laws and accused Abbott of doing little to stop another Uvalde-style school massacre.
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