The candidates stuck to their talking points during the debate: Abbott painting O'Rourke as a Biden clone on immigration, and O'Rourke saying Abbott's position on abortion and guns is not a good fit for Texas. | nachoaguilar
released Wednesday showed that 53% of likely voters plan to cast their ballot for the incumbent while 46% said they support O’Rourke.
O’Rourke followed by laying into Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a multi-billion-dollar, border security effort that began in March 2021.stating migrant apprehensions and encounters have increased since Abbott launched the operation, which O’Rourke characterized as a $4 billion boondoggle that has led to soldier suicides and mistreatment of migrants. He added that Abbott had years to fix the problem but failed to try until it was politically expedient.
“This hateful rhetoric — this treating human beings as political pawns, talking about invasions and Texans defending themselves — that's how people get killed at the Walmart in El Paso,” O’Rourke said.
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