Gabe Gutierrez is a senior White House correspondent for NBC News.
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott was blunt when asked about President Joe Biden’s performance at the State of the Union address. “I give it an ‘F’ for failure,” he said Friday in an interview at the governor’s mansion. “There’s a number-one issue in America and that’s securing the border. … It’s an issue on which has failed, and he waited 40 minutes to even bring it up” in Thursday's speech, the Texas Republican said.
Not long after law school, he was paralyzed by a falling tree while jogging. Now he’s among the people considered most responsible for creating divisions among Democrats over the Biden administration’s immigration policies, in turn pushing them toward the right. His decision to bus migrants to major cities across the country slowly nudged Democratic mayors to break with Biden over the record migrant influx.
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