Texas Governor Greg Abbott will face another test this week as he seeks to fill the state legislature with GOP lawmakers who will back his top legislative priority.
Texas is holding its primary runoffs for both parties on Tuesday, when voters will head to the polls to finalize their nominees in nearly three dozen races.
This election cycle, Abbott has endorsed 14 GOP primary challengers in hopes of unseating the House Republicans who repeatedly voted against his school vouchers program. Seven of the Abbott-backed candidates already won their races in the March 5 primary, while five advanced to the runoffs.
Between January 26 and February 24 alone, the governor spent $6.1 million to deliver on his campaign promise. Abbott ultimately failed to pass a bill that would have given parents educational tax dollars to send their children to private or religious schools instead of public ones, even after calling legislators back for four special…
