Abbott has carried Uvalde in both of his previous elections. In 2018, he won Uvalde by 1,700 votes over Democrat Lupe Valdez. In 2014, in his first run for...
Gun control was a central part of Beto O’Rourke’s campaign against Gov. Greg Abbott after the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
FILE - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott passes in front of a memorial outside Robb Elementary School to honor the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 29, 2022. Abbott on Wednesday, Aug. 31 pushed back on calls by Uvalde families for new gun control measures in Texas, saying that raising the minimum age to purchase weapons like the one used in the Robb Elementary School massacre would be “unconstitutional."AUSTIN — Uvalde County’s voters are set to either reelect Gov.
Polls will close at 7 p.m. During early voting, more than 5,100 of Uvalde’s residents turned out to vote as the county and the May mass shooting at Robb Elementary School became a key focus of the gubernatorial race.Abbott has carried Uvalde in both of his previous elections. In 2018, he won Uvalde by 1,700 votes over Democrat Lupe Valdez. In 2014, in his first run for governor, Abbott defeated Sen. Wendy Davis by 800 votes.
Uvalde has been reliably red for the past several gubernatorial elections and it is unclear the last time Uvalde supported a Democrat for governor. The Texas Secretary of State’s website goes back to 1992 and shows GOP candidates for governor carried Uvalde for all 30 years and seven gubernatorial elections.
But O’Rourke made the mass shooting — the sixth in Abbott’s tenure — one of the central issues of his campaign. A day after the May 24 shooting,Gun control advocates pressed Abbott to take action to stop mass shootings weeks after Uvalde. Advocates blamed him for not calling a special session after the Uvalde shootings and for sayingRelated:
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