Now he is turning to another issue that has really been mobilizing the base, and this is i think where we re going to see greg abbott really take a stand. he has won other battles, and the border issue is one that he knows as we saw with the trump presidency with that can really fire up the base. matt, mcconnell may want this to be about the economy, but he s got greg abbott screaming about undocumented immigrants, he s got ron desantis picking fights with disney s mccall are gonna be able to make this about the economy? well, i think that s what he has to try to do. but as i listen to all this, how far afield we are from what the republican party in texas was 20 years ago, when george w. bush was governor. george w. bush could not get elected governor of texas as a republican today. he was pro-immigrant, he didn t want to argue about a bunch of the social issues at the time here in texas. he wanted to talk about and
Issue that has really been mobilizing the base, and this is i think where we re going to see greg abbott really take a stand. he has won other battles, and the border issue is one that he knows as we saw with the trump presidency with that can really fire up the base. matt, mcconnell may want this to be about the economy, but he s got greg abbott screaming about undocumented immigrants, he s got ron desantis picking fights with disney s mccall are gonna be able to make this about the economy? well, i think that s what he has to try to do. but as i listen to all this, how far afield we are from what the republican party in texas was 20 years ago, when george w. bush was governor. george w. bush could not get elected governor of texas as a republican today. he was pro-immigrant, he didn t want to argue about a bunch of the social issues at the time here in texas. he wanted to talk about and focus on the economy and education. george w. bush, just in two