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Greg Abbott

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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Latest Fact-Checks By Greg Abbott

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Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 5, 2023 a tweet
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
Mostly True
By Aarón Torres • April 24, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2023 the State of the State speech
"Businesses large and small have led Texas to be ranked the number one state for business every year that I’ve been governor."
Half-True
By Aarón Torres • March 20, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 31, 2022 a campaign event
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 being able to buy an AR.”
Mostly False
By Nusaiba Mizan • September 21, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 15, 2022 a tweet
Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall.
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • July 14, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 25, 2022 a press conference
"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 and LA and New York disprove that thesis."
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • June 3, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 12, 2022 a press release
Says the Biden administration is choosing to send baby formula to the border as one of its “out-of-touch priorities.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • May 13, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 3, 2022 a press conference
"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity."
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • April 4, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 7, 2021 a press conference
The Texas abortion law “provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.”
False
By Amy Sherman • September 9, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 16, 2021 a press conference
“Carnage" is being caused "by people who are coming across the border."
False
By Brandon Mulder • July 2, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 an interview
“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 month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 11, 2021 an interview
Texas “could be very close to herd immunity.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • April 19, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 30, 2021 a tweet
“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 3, 2021 a tweet
“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • March 11, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2021 an interview
"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 19, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 a tweet
“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 19, 2020 a press conference
Says that shutdowns are “ineffective” and that we now know that COVID-19 is not commonly spread “by someone going to work.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • November 27, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 1, 2020 a tweet
Says “Property crime rising in Austin. This is the kind of thing that happens when cities defund and deemphasize police. Residents are left to fend for themselves.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • October 9, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 18, 2020 a press conference
Says crime is on the rise in Austin and a new study showed that it “is the No. 1 city in America in the year-to-year percentage increase in murders, with a percentage increase of more than 64% for the first half of this year.”
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 31, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 5, 2020 a press conference
“Almost 75 percent of the deaths from COVID-19 in the state of Texas are a result of people contracting COVID-19 who are age 65 and older.”
Mostly True
By Taylor Goldenstein • May 21, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 3, 2020 a tweet
“Texas ranks 3rd highest among states for the number of people who have recovered from” the coronavirus.
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • May 8, 2020
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Latest Fact-Checks About Greg Abbott

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stated on May 26, 2022 a tweet
Says Gov. Greg Abbott offered the uncle of a Uvalde shooting victim money to say “we don’t need stronger gun laws.”
Pants on Fire!
May 27, 2022
Don Huffines
Don Huffines
stated on February 12, 2022 an ad
“Under Greg Abbott’s leadership, Texas is putting taxpayer dollars into Chinese companies.”
Mostly False
February 24, 2022
Gun Free UT Gun Free UT
Gun Free UT Gun Free UT
stated on October 29, 2015 web site blog post
"29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting."  
Half-True
By Filipa Ioannou • November 23, 2015
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on June 14, 2015 the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise
Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 30, 2014 a debate
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
Mostly True
By Dylan Baddour • October 29, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 17, 2014 a TV ad
"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 23, 2014 speaking to reporters
"Greg Abbott and his surrogates have referred to women who have been the victims of rape or incest as though somehow what they are confronting is a minor issue."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
Greg Abbott "has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 15, 2014 a TV ad
Greg Abbott did "nothing" to pursue reports of the sexual abuse of boys at a West Texas state-run school.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 16, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on August 23, 2014 a TV ad
Greg Abbott was "charged with overseeing the state cancer research fund. But he let his wealthiest donors take tens of millions of taxpayer dollars without proper oversight. They showered Abbott with gifts and free vacations."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 31, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on August 7, 2014 a TV ad
Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 27, 2014 her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention
Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on April 22, 2014 an online post
"Under Greg Abbott, Texas four-year-olds would be forced to undergo standardized tests."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 1, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on March 31, 2014 an online petition
"Greg Abbott said it would be a ‘waste’ to expand pre-k to all Texas children."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on December 3, 2013 a post on her campaign website
Greg Abbott defended more than $5 billion in public school funding cuts in fighting hundreds of school districts in court.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2013
Sam Houston
Sam Houston
stated on December 13, 2013 a campaign web page
Says he would have "almost twice the actual experience practicing law" Greg Abbott did on becoming attorney general of Texas.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • December 16, 2013
Democratic Governors Association
Democratic Governors Association
stated on October 24, 2013 an email blast
"Texas Governor Rick Perry’s voter ID law is a blatant effort to defeat Wendy Davis by disenfranchising tens of thousands of women voters."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 31, 2013
Lone Star Project
Lone Star Project
stated on July 14, 2013 a blog post.
Says Greg Abbott "converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 2, 2013
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