Trump: Abbott would have won if he ‘hadn’t become a RINO’

President Trump blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott late Tuesday for losing his reelection bid, accusing the incumbent of being a “RINO,” or Republican in Name Only.

“If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty!”

The three-term governor went down to defeat by a wide margin to his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) projected. Hinojosa led by a margin of 7.4 points as of Wednesday morning. 

Had he won, Abbott would have been the longest serving chief executive in the Lone Star State.

The Texas Republican oversaw a rapid expansion of the state’s population and economy as governor,........

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