Republican Governor Spending Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars To Defend Democrat Election Takeover

Texas has long been a solidly GOP-controlled state, yet its governor finds himself at odds with his own party on core questions of how elections should work and who gets to shape them.

While the Texas GOP pushes aggressively for greater control over its nomination process and stronger federal safeguards against voter fraud, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has taken a different approach, defending long-standing state practices and questioning expansive national mandates.