Texas Democrats call for Cruz to resign after unverified photos purportedly show him traveling to Cancun lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hinojosa said Abbott’s handling of the winter weather power outages coupled with what critics say is Abbott’s botched coronavirus response could put Democrats over the edge in 2022.
“We’re going to hang all of these things around his neck because people need to be reminded about how horrible he’s been as a governor,” Hinojosa said.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Hill has reached out to Abbott’s office for comment.
The governor is taking a series of steps to address the crisis, including deploying the state’s National Guard in an effort to help relocate vulnerable people, including elderly individuals, to warm shelters.
Morning Report.
Today is Wednesday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch.
Alexis Simendinger and
@asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe!
Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 486,106; Tuesday, 486,325; Wednesday, 488,081.
President Biden on Tuesday said Americans might return by early next year to the routines and lives they remember before COVID-19, but he conceded less than a month into his presidency that “we don’t know.”
Speaking for the first time as president during a town hall event hosted by CNN in Milwaukee, Wis., Biden said he would like to see schools reopen for in-person instruction by summer, urged Americans to do everything possible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and said he empathizes with public confusion and fear about everything from byzantine online
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas is on a comeback from a pandemic that has killed more than 36,000 people here - third-most in the U.S. - and steered America's biggest red state Monday night into a thicket of battles over voting, policing and immigration that are likely to deepen political divides in the months ahead.
AUSTIN, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday night said Texas is on a comeback from a pandemic that s killed more than 35,000 people statewide, third-most in the U.S., then pivoted America s biggest red state into a thicket of contentious issues that have roiled the nation during the past year.
In his final State of the State address before he is on the ballot for a third term in 2022, Abbott declared calls to defund the police an emergency in need of stopping and ordered the GOP majority in the Texas Capitol to prioritize election integrity without mentioning there was no evidence of widespread fraud during the 2020 elections.