The March primary elections for the Texas House saw historic amounts of spending.
An analysis by NBC 5 found that more than $25 million was spent in total throughout the state for Texas House races from January through the first week of March.
“The political message is if you’re against school choice, you’re no longer a conservative Republican. You’re basically a RINO ," said McIntosh. After the March primary election when Governor Abbott knocked off several opponents of the policy, he's said he's two votes short of the 76 vote threshold to pass something in the Texas House.
“To be honest with you, if I can no longer vote in my district, I really don’t have a lot of interest in continuing to serve," Rep. VanDeaver told NBC affiliate KXAN earlier this Spring.this week saying he"Won't be bullied by powerful politicians and special interests because he doesn't work for them." In the ad, he directly criticized the Governor.
Multi-million dollar races for the Texas House used to be very rare. That type of money was only common for Congressional and statewide races. Governor Abbott earlier this year received the largest political donation in Texas history, $6 million, from Pennsylvania investor Jeff Yass. In the March primary, Abbott spent roughly $6 million in about a dozen House races.
Capo wonders if the attention will spark a backlash from voters in the years ahead. He notes many of their previous ads against Republican incumbent lawmakers were about issues other than education, like immigration and gun rights.
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