Nelson’s former colleagues in the Senate gave her resounding approval, avoiding another embarrassment for Gov. Greg Abbott, whose last three nominations for secretary of state did not receive confirmation.
to ease their doubts. Scott briefly served as an attorney for Trump in one of his lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election and then defended the integrity of elections as secretary of state.
Scott initiated an audit of four large counties in Texas after Trump, claiming voter fraud, pressured Abbott to review the election results in the state. Scott completed the state’s review of the 2020 presidential election in December, which found that though there were some “irregularities” during the election, it was not riddled with widespread fraud. Prior to releasing the audit’s results,In December, as she was about to retire from the Legislature,for the position. The move was a savvy one.
David Whitley was derailed by Democrats’ opposition to him because of his supervision of an attempt to purge the voter rolls of 100,000 voters, many of whom had Hispanic surnames and had previously not been U.S. citizens but subsequently became naturalized.
Nelson will also play a major role in the state’s economic development as secretary of state and tend to foreign relationships, including a tenuous one with Mexico, as the state’s major ambassador.
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