“Trump just didn’t know when to keep his mouth closed.”
In my mind, I think a huge mistake — maybe the biggest — was letting the war go on so long. He announced, “... bomb the sh!t of them” and “I’ll have it over in two weeks”. If he had said neither of those things, the issue wouldn’t be so glaring now at election time.
And Abbott, who has been governor for two terms, is losing by over a million votes.