Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is leading Democrat gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis O’Rourke (D) in their upcoming race, a UT/Texas Politics Project survey released this week found.
No other candidate comes close, but eight percent admitted they “haven’t thought about it enough to have an opinion.”
While O’Rourke enjoys a 19-point advantage over Abbott with urban voters and 17-point advantage among moderates, Abbott boasts an 18-point lead among independent voters — 40 percent to O’Rourke’s 22 percent. And in general, independents tend to view the Republican governor more favorably than O’Rourke:
Independents as a group are more favorably disposed toward Abbott than O’Rourke, though both are in net-negative territory, with intensity, such as it exists, expressed on the unfavorable end of the spectrum: Abbott is judged favorably by 37% of independents and unfavorably by 42% . O’Rourke fares worse — 23% favorable, 63% unfavorable .
The survey also found that a majority of Texas voters, 52 percent, agree with the Abbott administration’s decision to bus migrants to blue cities across the country. As immigration issues top the list of concerns — 26 percent identify it as the “most important issue” to their vote in the 2022 election — this is significant, as O’Rourke has taken a different approach, devoting his campaign trail focus to gun control and abortion.Abbott of “killing the women among us right now.
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