Spurred by Gov. Greg Abbott's coronavirus handling, Democratic strategists launch PAC to defeat him

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Spurred by Gov. Greg Abbott's coronavirus handling, Democratic strategists launch PAC to defeat him in 2022

by Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune


Hoping to harness the opposition to Gov. Greg Abbott's handling of the coronavirus, several Texas Democratic strategists are launching a new political group to defeat him in 2022.

Their group, the Beat Abbott PAC, will raise money that will ultimately go to the Democratic nominee against Abbott in 2022, when he is up for a third term. Along the way, the political action committee aims to build a small-dollar donor list that can help Democrats in the next election cycle and "hold Abbott accountable for his failure on COVID," according to an announcement first shared with The Texas Tribune.

The PAC's board includes Tory Gavito, president and co-founder of Way to Win; Ginny Goldman, founder and former executive director of the Texas Organizing Project; Zack Malitz, co-founder of Real Justice PAC and statewide field director for Beto O'Rourke's 2018 U.S. Senate campaign; and Derrick Osobase, a veteran labor and political operative.

“We’re done listening to a Governor willing to let people die in order to maintain his good graces with the likes of Donald Trump and the right-wing of the Republican party,” Malitz, the PAC's treasurer, said in a statement. “People in this state deserve better than a corrupt talking head who looks out only for himself and the one-percent. It’s time to beat him.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/16/texas-coronavirus-greg-abbott-pac/

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1. I doubt that Greg runs in 2022

Prior to Governor Goodhair (Rick Perry) there was a strong tradition of only serving two terms. Texas will be a great deal more blue in 2022 and I doubt Greg runs There are demographic trends that have made clear that Texas will be a blue state. For example the rural vs. Urban mix has been changing

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Texas is also becoming more diverse

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