EDINGURG, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott endorsed former President Donald Trump in his race to grow to be Republican nominee for President of the USA.
“You want new president,” Abbott mentioned to the mayors of New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. on Sunday. “Joe Biden has failed at nationwide safety. We want a president that can safe the border.”
“We want Donald J. Trump again as our president of the USA of America,” Abbott mentioned. “I’m right here right this moment to formally proclaim my endorsement for Donald J. Trump to be President of the USA of America, once more.”
Trump responded, saying to Abbott, “I’m going to make your job a lot simpler. We love Texas.”
The endorsement got here as President Trump and Governor Abbott served tamales to Texas Division of Public Security troopers and Nationwide Guard Troopers and Airmen in a pre-Thanksgiving meal. The troopers and Guardsmen are assigned to frame safety responsibility beneath Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
Abbott turns into the fifth governor to endorse the previous president throughout the 2024 Republican main and joins Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Legal professional Basic Ken Paxton, Land Commissioner Daybreak Buckingham, and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on the rising checklist of Texas statewide elected officers.
Then-President Trump obtained 52 p.c of the vote throughout his 2020 presidential race towards Joe Biden. Trump captured almost 5.6 million votes within the Lone Star State.
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Border points had been a key issue within the Texas election of 2020. Throughout Fiscal Yr 2020, President Trump’s final full 12 months in workplace, Border Patrol brokers encountered simply over 400,000 migrants. Underneath the Biden administration’s border and immigration insurance policies, brokers encountered simply over 407.000 migrants simply up to now two months, in keeping with U.S. Customs and Border Safety Southwest Land Border Encounters Reviews.
The governor’s endorsement adopted an early Thanksgiving dinner served to DPS troopers and Texas Nationwide Guardsmen by the governor and President Trump.
Brandon Judd, president of the Nationwide Border Patrol Council informed the viewers attending the speech that President Trump shook each hand and took photographs with each trooper and guardsman who got here to him throughout the luncheon.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the USA Border Patrol. Previous to his retirement, he served because the Division Chief for Legislation Enforcement Operations, directing operations for 9 Border Patrol Stations throughout the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Comply with him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Bob Value is the Breitbart Texas-Border staff’s affiliate editor and senior information contributor. He’s an authentic member of the Breitbart Texas staff. Value is an everyday panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Level? Sunday-morning discuss present. Comply with him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.