{"id":182132,"date":"2026-02-27T00:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:48:08","slug":"gov-abbotts-lets-roll-campaign-stops-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182132\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott\u2019s \u2018Let\u2019s roll\u2019 campaign stops in El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 was in El Paso to hold his \u201cLet\u2019s Roll\u201d campaign event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 2:45 p.m. campaign stop at DeadBeach Brewery on Thursday, February 26, is an effort to encourage voters to head to the polls next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governor spoke about his support for law enforcement Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI will not allow our police to be defunded in Texas. I signed a law to ensure we would defund any city that defunds the police,\u201d Abbott told a crowded room of attendees who applauded his remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott was joined by Comptroller Kelly Hancock and candidate for the Texas Agriculture commissioner, Nate Sheets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott is seeking a fourth term. If he wins re-election and successfully finishes the fourth term, he would be the longest-serving governor in Texas history, surpassing Rick Perry, who served 14 years.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 was in El Paso to hold his \u201cLet\u2019s Roll\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[73017,73018,138,140,139,392,5621,5875],"class_list":["post-182132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-campaign-event","tag-deadbeach-brewery","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-kelly-hancock","tag-texas-agriculture-commissioner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182132","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=182132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}