President Endorses Miller and Huffines
in Major Snub for Texas GOP Governor
Capitol Inside
February 27, 2026
President Donald Trump gave Governor Greg Abbott an epic cold shoulder after sharing the stage with him on Friday when he rejected the chance to back a pair of candidates who he's spending millions of dollars trying to elect in favor of the top state leader's two biggest enemies in a war-torn Texas GOP.
Trump capped off an appearance at a voter turnout rally in Corpus Christi with Truth Social posts that threw his complete and total support behind Texas Agriculture Sid Miller for a re-election bid and Don Huffines in a fight for the job that state Comptroller Kelly Hancock is fighting to keep in the primary election on Tuesday.
The president's belated pitch for Miller on the final day for early voting could seal the deal for the incumbent in a GOP primary clash with Nate Sheets - a North Texas beekeeper who Abbott has been promoting vigorously in campaign stops across the state. Abbott has portrayed Miller as a crooked politician who Texas voters simply cannot trust.
Trump served up superlatives for the Texas governor at the event on the coast. But Trump ignored Abbott's opinions and recommendations on behalf of Sheets and Hancock, who's received record sums of campaign cash from the top state leader in the past five weeks. The president offered almost identical reasons for endorsing Huffines and Miller at the Texas stop at the start of the final weekend before Tuesday's vote.
“Don Huffines is a MAGA Warrior - he has been with me from the very beginning, and is running for Comptroller of Public Accounts in Texas, which I WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024, getting the highest vote in the State's History," Trump declared on Truth Social.
"Sid Miller, a MAGA Warrior who has been with me from the very beginning, is doing a terrific job as Agriculture Commissioner for the Great State of Texas, which I WON BIG in Record Margins in 2016, 2020, and 2024!" the president wrote about the state agriculture commissioner.
Hancock - a Texas Senate member until an appointment from Abbott to the statewide post last summer - contended in a post on X from the rally that he's tackling many of the same issues that Trump credited Huffines for confronting when he endorsed him instead later in the day.
"Excited to be in Corpus Christi with President
@realDonaldTrump!" Hancock exclaimed. "As Comptroller, I’m delivering results for the America First agenda — securing the border, ending DEI, and cutting regulations to grow the economy. It’s an honor to welcome the President back to Texas."
Hancock could still score a slot in a runoff that Huffines had been widely expected to make before the seal of approval from Trump today. Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick was running second to Huffines in polling on the down-ballot contest last week. But Abbott has made an effort that's unprecedented in an attempt to lift his hand-picked candidate into a second round bout with Huffines, who sought without success to oust him from the governor's office just four years ago.
Abbott's leadership committee poured almost $3.4 million into the Hancock campaign during the span - with an infusion of more than $755,000 earlier this week for television advertising in the stretch. The governor shelled out more than $207,000 on the Sheets campaign against Miller in the past month
Trump lauded both Miller and Huffines for positions on the cutting of taxes and regulations, border security, law and order, military veterans, American-made products and our "always under siege Second Amendment" rights as justifications for the endorsements.
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