O'Rourke Calls Abbott Pro-Life Fraud
as Governor Ties Dem to Truck Deaths

Capitol Inside
June 29, 2022

Democrat Beto O'Rourke conjured visions of The Handmaid's Tale on Wednesday when he portrayed Governor Greg Abbott as a devious imposter who's hiding his true motivations behind an anti-abortion persona and stance.

"Greg Abbott is not pro-life," O'Rourke said in a tweet with a video of a speech in Austin on Monday.

"This is about controlling the lives and the bodies of the women of Texas," the former congressman from El Paso declared at the rally in the Capital City.

Abbott countered today in a Twitter post - arguing that the Democratic challenger shares blame with President Joe Biden for the deaths of 51 migrants who were trapped in a big rig that had been abandoned on the outskirts of San Antonio.

"We all just witnessed the tragedies that occur because of Biden’s border policies," Abbott said in a tweet with a campaign video that featured a Fox News report on the truck tragedy. "O’Rourke says we we shouldn’t do anything to address it. He would aid & abet Biden’s open border. The Beto-Biden border policy is wrong for Texas & U.S."

A governor's race that seemed to languish throughout much of the spring has been reignited by several momentous events in the past month with a school shooting that left 21 dead in Uvalde, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that cancelled Roe v. Wade and the discovery of bodies in the tractor-trailer in SA. While Abbott has led in the polls since the outset, the race has appeared to tighten some in recent weeks.

O'Rourke has found juice in Uvalde and the nation's highest court while Abbott continues to try to make the race a referendum on the border and the state economy to a lesser degree. The Democrat seized on the SCOTUS ruling a week ago - ticking off several examples of why Abbott is a pro-life fraud.

O'Rourke asserted that Texas would not lead the nation in maternal mortality rates, people who are uninsured and the number of children who've died of diabetes as a result.

"And if this were about life, then gun violence would not be the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the state of Texas," O'Rourke said at the Austin rally. "If this were about life, then those 19 children in Uvalde, Texas would still be alive, enjoying their summer break right now."

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