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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (left) and Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa (right). (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The race for Texas governor is shaping up to be a dead heat between Gov. Greg Abbott and his opponent, Gina Hinojosa, based on a new poll.<\/p>\n
The N+ Univision poll released on Sept. 9 showed both candidates tied at 47% with 5% undecided. The poll was released just a day prior to Abbott’s remarks at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hinojosa, Abbott tied in governor’s race <\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n The poll also found 44% of voters view Abbott favorably and 47% unfavorably, while 42% view Hinojosa favorably and 29% unfavorably.<\/p>\n Among Hispanic voters, who were more heavily weighted in this poll, Hinojosa holds a 12-point lead in the race.<\/p>\n More Texans say they’ve become more supportive of Democrats <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n The N+ Univision poll showed that Texans are shifting more toward Democrats compared to 2024, with 25% saying they have become more supportive of Democrats and 17% saying they have become more supportive of Republicans.<\/p>\n Among Hispanic voters, that margin moves to 11 points with 32% saying they have become more supportive of Democrats and 21% saying they have become more supportive of Republicans. Hispanic voters listed President Donald Trump’s actions as president for their shifting views.<\/p>\n Talarico leads in Senate race <\/p>\n The same poll shows Democrat James Talarico with a 5-point lead over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race for U.S. Senate, 48% to 43%. Among Hispanic voters, that lead expands to 19 points, 56% to 37%.<\/p>\n The poll was conducted between Aug. 27 and Sept. 4<\/a> and surveyed 1,000 registered voters with an oversample of 564 registered Latino voters. The overall poll had a margin of error of +\/- 3.6 percentage points and +\/- 5 percentage points for the Latino sample.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes form an N+Univision poll conducted between Aug. 27 and Sept. 4.<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>2026 Elections<\/a>Greg Abbott<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (left) and Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa (right). (Getty Images) The race for Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,3485,392,223,391,287,216,395,393],"class_list":["post-433803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-elections-2026","tag-greg-abbott","tag-news","tag-people","tag-politics","tag-tx","tag-tx-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433803","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=433803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}