Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
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“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
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"Businesses large and small have led Texas to be ranked the number one state for business every year that I’ve been governor."
Three court rulings since May 2022 “have made it clear that it is unconstitutional to ban someone between the ages of 18 and 20 from…
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Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall.
"We need to realize that people who think that ‘well, maybe if we could just implement tougher gun laws, it’s going to solve it,’ Chicago…
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Says the Biden administration is choosing to send baby formula to the border as one of its “out-of-touch priorities.”
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"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity."
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The Texas abortion law “provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.”
“Carnage" is being caused "by people who are coming across the border."
“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the…
Latest Promises Of Greg Abbott
| Promise | Status | Last Updated | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repeal limits on students taking online classes | Promise Broken | June 19, 2018 | View Details |
| Require school districts to list the capacity of each school compared to its enrollment | Promise Broken | June 18, 2018 | View Details |
| Abbott: Texas needs law barring state spending to implement Obamacare law | Not Rated | May 22, 2015 | View Details |
| Cut Texas property taxes | Not Rated | February 27, 2015 | View Details |
| Raise five Texas universities into nation’s top 10 public universities | Promise Broken | January 30, 2015 | View Details |
| Require quarterly candidate campaign finance reports | Not Rated | January 20, 2015 | View Details |
| Provide state funding for free tuition available to veterans and their children | Not yet rated | January 20, 2015 | View Details |
| Bar spending of certain contributions until they’re reported to the state | Not Rated | January 20, 2015 | View Details |
| Create reading-to-learn academies for fourth- and fifth-grade teachers | Not Rated | January 20, 2015 | View Details |
| Spend $40 million more in 2016-17 for research at key universities | Not yet rated | January 20, 2015 | View Details |