Crowd Wisdom 2/21/2022
Texas Governor Polls 2022: The Latest GOP Primary Election Poll shows Greg Abbott leading by a big Margin.
Average of Poll: Abbott: 60%, Don Huffines: 12% Allen West: 11%
Feb 21st
Governor Greg Abbott has likely the most difficult election season ahead of him since the beginning of his incumbency. Since the election in 2014, he enjoyed comfortable favorability margins across the state and held control over the republican party in the state.
However, cracks began to form in 2020 with the well-known arrest of a Dallas salon operator sanctioned by his executive orders to prevent coronavirus. Since then, a segment of the republican party has checked his right flank and forced his hand on a number of divisive issues driving his favorability ratings into negative territory for the first time in his career.
The GOP primary on March 1st has two characters who each play a right-flanked spoiler: Allen West and Don Huffines.
Although Governor Abbott has generally played into the right flank during the 2021 Legislative session, there is still a wing of the party hungry for more red-meat best exemplified when he was heckled at a Trump rally in Conroe, Texas this January. Allen West, a former Congressman from Florida, has been a thorn in Abbott’s side since becoming the state party chairman in 2020 – setting hard-line policies on the party’s platform and on Twitter.
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https://crowdwisdom.live/us-politics/texas-governor-polls-2022-gop-polls/
