{"id":170756,"date":"2026-02-19T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170756\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:24:21","slug":"texas-gov-abbott-to-visit-el-paso-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170756\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Abbott to visit El Paso next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"451\" height=\"351\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c4382368088fe9a8c6439011325a5e21.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will be coming to El Paso next week for a \u201cGet Out the Vote\u201d event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott is expected to be in El Paso on Thursday, Feb. 26, and the event is expected to begin at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott, a Republican, is seeking a fourth term. If he wins re-election and successfully finishes a fourth term in office, he would be the longest-serving governor in Texas history, surpassing his predecessor, Rick Perry, who served 14 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story will be updated as soon as we learn more about Abbott\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will be coming to El Paso next week for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,392,27,3343],"class_list":["post-170756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-texas","tag-texas-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}