They must have the elections rigged if that is true.
In a fair election old Bob the Irish guy would not have a chance at all.
Total joke.
Texas is purple at best due to the cities of Houston, Dallas/Ft worth San Antonio, Austin and So Paso all being deep blue with a fast growing population in all of those cities. That and Abbott is universally hated by a lot on the right. The Ercot fiasco cost him big time.
Texas has 25 million people. DFW has 6, Houston has 6, Austin 2 , San Antonio 1.5 el Paso another 2 all of those cities are deep blue , rural Texas is red but they are swamped by the growing cities full of imports from CA,NY,NJ, MA I see more and more of those licence plates every day in DFW.