{"id":432375,"date":"2026-09-11T02:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432375\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:24:17","slug":"abbott-says-midterms-are-common-sense-vs-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432375\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott says midterms are ‘common sense’ vs. ‘crazy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivers remarks before supporters attending the Republican midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, September 10, 2026.<\/p>\n

Tom Fox\/The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott cast this fall\u2019s Texas elections as \u201ca choice between common sense and crazy\u201d Thursday as he rallied Republicans at their convention in Dallas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m here to tell you that Republicans are going to win this year because Americans want safe communities and secure borders, and Republicans will deliver on that need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Abbott has become a national conservative figure, driven largely by the billions Texas has spent to secure the border with Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The governor, who is running for an unprecedented fourth term<\/a> in office, faces Democrat Gina Hinojosa<\/a>, a state representative from Austin, in November.<\/p>\n

With images of Big Bend and the Texas flag behind him on the American Airlines Center stage, Abbott praised President Donald Trump, reminding the arena of his accomplishments and repeatedly hammering \u201cthe Democrats running on the statewide ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCommon sense always wins. It will win this year, too,\u201d Abbott said, as the crowd repeatedly jumped up to cheer during his eight-minute speech. \u201cTogether we are going to demolish the Democrats. We are going to keep Texas red.\u201d<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t name\u00a0Hinojosa or James Talarico<\/a>, a state representative running for the Senate against Attorney General Ken Paxton \u2014 a departure from the new tone his campaign took earlier this week when his staff directly attacked Hinojosa for the first time on the trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In news releases, the governor\u2019s campaign spokespeople called\u00a0Hinojosa a \u201cgender bender\u201d for supporting transgender kids and \u201cJob Killer Gina\u201d for her opposition to some tax cuts for the wealthy over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But while Abbott didn\u2019t mention\u00a0Hinojosa, she and Talarico were present in spirit: He criticized their defense of transgender rights, efforts to stop a border wall and block stiff voting restrictions and opposition to private school vouchers, among other issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re gaslighting the public on affordability,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n

Abbott also ticked off laws he had signed in recent years: The state funding for100 miles of border wall, the largest private school voucher program in the nation and a constitutional amendment banning a state income tax that had bipartisan support in the Texas Legislature and was approved by voters last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stopped the craziness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Abbott even managed to get a dig in on his favorite adversary \u2014 California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocrats are not safe,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cThey voted to\u00a0defund police. That\u2019s not Texas. That\u2019s California Crazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, in a nod to the handful of attendees sitting under the California sign in the center of the audience, he added: \u201cWith all due respect to the California delegation here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

State Democrats called the speech \u201ca snoozefest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when working people are struggling under Abbott\u2019s agenda of giving data centers the biggest tax breaks in the country, shuttering neighborhood public schools, and enabling Flock cameras to\u00a0surveil Texans without cause, he\u2019s patting himself on the back at an event where the cheapest ticket is $20,000,\u201d Hinojosa said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivers remarks before supporters attending the Republican midterm convention at the American Airlines Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-432375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432375","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=432375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}